Example sentences for: innocents

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

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

  • Under its slapstick shenanigans, this modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents: It's nature's revenge on the overweening.

  • 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."

  • He doesn't get a sexual charge out of the brutality, nor does he develop a penchant for torturing innocents.

  • For all its bogey-man shenanigans, it wants to leave you with faith in a higher order--in the possibility that even after death wrongs may be avenged, innocents protected, and the loose ends of one's life tied up.


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