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.

  • 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 three doorways, with stonework dripping like stalactites, represent Faith, Hope, and Charity, and are loaded with sculptures depicting angel choirs and musicians, and Biblical episodes such as the birth and youth of Jesus, the Flight into Egypt, the Slaughter of the Innocents, the Tree of Calvary, and much, much more.

  • It’s a favorite haunt for local fellows looking for foreign innocents abroad.

  • 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."


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