Example sentences for: crime--

How can you use “crime--” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are a few advanced nations that have high rates of church attendance and low rates of violent crime--Ireland, Italy, and Belgium--but they're the exceptions.

  • Larger-than-life figures from the annals of organized crime--Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone--are often drafted into service when Hollywood decides to make one of its perennial gangster flicks.

  • In particular, the pollsters charge that PROMO downplayed the extent to which respondents' fear of crime was based on the experience of crime--53 percent of those polled had said that they or someone they loved had been the victim of a crime.

  • However, in New York and Chicago--the largest bastions of organized crime--Jewish and Italian gangs (not Sicilian Mafiosi) dominated.


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