Example sentences for: innocents

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

  • Typical of this type of drama is the 1976 film The Enforcer , a sequel to Dirty Harry . Eastwood pursues a gang of hippie terrorists who murder assorted innocents and kill his female partner in a shootout.

  • Their monsters differ (Satanic pornographers and incestuous rapists on the one hand, megalomaniac therapists on the other), as do their helpless innocents (wounded children vs. day-care Dreyfuses).

  • And then wraps up wondering, "Will it take the shooting of innocents in every congressional district before national lawmakers" do something?--as if all those shootings hadn't already happened.

  • Stories about child molesting are populated by evil monsters and helpless innocents (rather than flawed or unfortunate humans), and they languish in a miasma of sinister eroticism.

  • Later, living in Paris, Gallant took up the Jamesian theme of innocents abroad, though she sometimes sketched her expatriates with the quicker, more economical strokes of a Hemingway.


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