Example sentences for: perpetrated

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

  • It ineluctably reminds me of the favorite execrable pun perpetrated by those who seem to be in the throes of learning English: “Let's throw a little light on the subject,” said the man as he turned on the lamp.

  • Oh, Shut Up: John McLaughlin urged the president to augment his racial dialogue with discussion of black racism, jury nullification, hate crimes perpetrated against white people by black people, and violent imagery in rap songs.

  • Not at all contemporary, maybe it wasn't the simple-minded nonsense it seemed, maybe a parody of Wordsworth perpetrated by a disillusioned towel copy writer à la J.K. Stephens' celebrated parody of that poet: Two Voices are there: One is of the deep/And one is of an old half-witted sheep....

  • But he never shows the great harms perpetrated by this system.

  • There's nothing for the United States to say about this except that we perpetrated a moral outrage through inexcusable stupidity and recklessness.


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