Example sentences for: perjury

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

  • They scheduled her deposition for Monday, hoping she would contradict Clinton's testimony and convince senators that he had committed perjury and obstructed justice.

  • 2/15/99 The Senate acquits President Clinton 55-45 on perjury and 50-50 on obstruction of justice, well short of the two-thirds vote required.

  • (The general view is that perjury in civil suits isn't easy to prosecute, especially if the suit has been dismissed, as Jones' was.)

  • Clinton couldn't be guilty of perjury before Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's grand jury, Ruff explained, because in his testimony Clinton had "admitted" the essential truth: that he had engaged in "sexual conduct" and "inappropriate, intimate contact with Monica Lewinsky."

  • Reporters initially preserved an air of dignity by couching their questions in terms of perjury, but they soon tossed aside that fig leaf and pounced on the subject everyone wanted to know about: Did Clinton and Lewinsky have sex?


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