Example sentences for: misdemeanors

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

  • The thing about growing up the son of two New York intellectuals is that reading trashy fiction somehow seems worse--more of a "transgressive act," as some of my academic colleagues would put it--than many other minor crimes and misdemeanors (even more than using the word "hopefully" incorrectly).

  • Thank goodness Stein didn't include "setting a bad example for our children" among the high crimes and misdemeanors that would warrant the removal of an elected president from office.

  • The words in the Constitution, "high crimes and misdemeanors," give us much latitude.

  • Example: "We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors.

  • What light does the Nixon case throw on the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors"?


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