Example sentences for: innocents

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

  • Suddenly, we are innocents again, just as in the 1950s, willing to believe just about any claim about the Internet's promise.

  • Or, why not really go for it, and annihilate millions of innocents?

  • 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.

  • The mass-circulation tabloid Sun said Britain was committed to this war because "the Butcher of Belgrade cannot be allowed to continue his massacre of the innocents," while the London Evening Standard said that "having come so far, and having got ourselves into this mess--and it is a terrible and bloody mess--we must see it through."

  • 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).


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