Example sentences for: prosecutions

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

  • Investigators and prosecutors could not present all the evidence of possible involvement of individuals other than those charged, although they continued to pursue such investigations, planning or hoping for later prosecutions.

  • Libby's problem is that double jeopardy can only be claimed when multiple prosecutions arise from a single criminal action.

  • It results from the acquittal of Mr. Brian Fisher, a businessman, on charges of insider dealing, after a ruling in Southwark Crown Court which threatens to severely restrict the scope for prosecutions of insider dealing.

  • Military officials have proposed to relax their policies against adultery . The proposed changes, prompted by embarrassment over the Kelly Flinn affair and other recent adultery scandals, would reduce the number of prosecutions (by prosecuting only those cases in which the adultery has demonstrably damaged troop morale) and the severity of the discharge imposed on violators.

  • The story's headline--"Feds Triple Health Fraud Cases"--commits the sin of a vacuous comparison, but the body explains that the baseline year for the comparison with current prosecutions is 1993.


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