Example sentences for: crimes

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

  • You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.

  • The United States inherited English common law, which made adultery, as well as fornication (sex between unmarried people) and sodomy (oral and anal sex), punishable crimes.

  • 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.

  • Article II, Section 4 allows for the president's removal if the Senate convicts him of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

  • (Note: The online version of USAT 's story links to: "Discussion: Does media coverage of shooting sprees lead to copycat crimes?"


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