Example sentences for: offenders

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

  • If we were to crack down on speeding as vigorously as we did on drunken driving--by mandating license suspensions for repeat offenders, imposing jail time on incorrigibles, and outlawing radar detectors--we could make the roads far safer.

  • Nonviolent drug offenders can avoid prison sentences by undergoing treatment and monitoring.

  • The most famous examples--Megan's Law (federal: requires notifying a neighborhood of the presence of a convicted sex offender), the Jimmy Ryce Act (Florida) and Stephanie's Law (Kansas: both provide for the commitment to a mental hospital of dangerous repeat sex offenders after the expiration of their prison terms)-- are but the tip of a legislative iceberg that, the Post reports, currently consists of at least 50 such laws added to the books in the past 18 months.

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with the situation on the Russian space station Mir, the New York Times goes with the push for new ways to keep sex offenders away from the rest of us even after they've done their time, and the Washington Post chooses a review of the Supreme Court's just-concluded term.

  • Though he describes himself as being "to the right of Attila the Hun on crime," he authorized the Willie Hortenesque early parole of more than 700 sex offenders in 1992.


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