Example sentences for: jeopardy

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

  • "Obviously," the Post quotes him, "if there's jeopardy [to Lewinsky], I'd like a deal."

  • As one of the rare, highly scrutinized, “minority” scientists, Kalima embodies a “double jeopardy.”

  • "Murder Isn't Always a Crime" claims the tag line for the new movie Double Jeopardy , in which Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is framed by her husband in his faked murder.

  • For example, a double jeopardy defense would certainly fail if a defendant claimed that he couldn't be prosecuted for a second assault on a victim just because he was convicted of assaulting her two years earlier.

  • Libby's defense in the movie--double jeopardy--is derived from the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which says that no person "shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb."


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