Example sentences for: criminal

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

  • "Someone who had no knowledge or involvement in a criminal act is being punished.

  • A teen-ager (Brad Renfro) discovers an old Nazi war criminal (Ian McKellen) living under a false name in his town and blackmails him into giving detailed accounts of Nazi atrocities.

  • When indigent citizens get in criminal trouble, public defenders are made available by law.

  • The USAT front-page "cover story," upon reviewing some 1,500 personnel decisions made at the Department of Defense, concludes that the Pentagon regularly grants security clearances to civilian employees of defense contractor companies who have prior criminal convictions and/or long histories of financial irresponsibility or substance abuse.

  • Soon after his return, Maggs encounters Tobias Oates, a novelist and self-styled "cartographer" of the "Criminal Mind," of which Maggs is soon forced to become the hapless embodiment.


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