Example sentences for: innocence

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

  • On the positive side: It's a compelling document "of a life marked by high seriousness, good conscience and an utter refusal to submit to evil and oppression" (Jonathan Groner, the Washington Post Book World ), and upon reading it you "become persuaded that something about his combination of seeming innocence and moral honesty has the power to move if not mountains then those who have the most power" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). But complaints against the book are uniform: 1) This volume "feels anti-climactic" (Duane Davis, Denver Rocky Mountain News ) when compared with his first because it lacks the kind of compelling events that shaped his early life.

  • Von Post's JFK even "[makes] love with a surprising innocence."

  • This secrecy allows Esther Pollard to make bold claims about her husband's innocence and to dismiss these damning allegations as the malevolent fabrications of Pollard-haters.

  • Every time something really bad happens, Americans seem to lose their innocence all over again.

  • "They were trying to put us in a box" in which "all we could do was to take the facts and decide" Clinton's guilt or innocence.


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