Example sentences for: crimes

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

  • In fact, the bill is a failure: The three-strikes law clogs the courts and fills prisons with older inmates unlikely to commit serious crimes again; cities will go broke paying for the "100,000 new cops" when federal seed money runs out; and the assault-weapons ban has too many loopholes.

  • Democrats to "unite around an unequivocal policy of opposing impeachment, on the grounds that the 'crimes' alleged in the Starr report fall far short of the constitutional requirements for reversing the people's electoral choice."

  • Although, according to local Albanians, the Serbs spent three days burning documents before the British arrived, the Guardian quoted an official of the Hague war crimes tribunal as saying that scraps of paper left behind might be useful in establishing a "paper chain" between President Slobodan Milosevic and the massacres carried out in Kosovo.

  • In the International Herald Tribune, the Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, appealed Thursday for the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court to try those accused of crimes against humanity.

  • His new Web site, vote.com , asked visitors to "vote" yes or no on questions such as "Protect Gays from Hate Crimes?"


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