Example sentences for: rape

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

  • Possible meaning: "Clinton had sex with her, but it wasn't rape."

  • Also in the Loggia, the spiralling Rape of the Sabines of Giambologna (actually a Flemish artist named Jean de Boulogne) is another piece of dazzling virtuosity, donated by the Medici.

  • I admit I did a double-take when I read that a New Jersey Nets basketball player, accused of rape, said his involvement with the woman never got beyond conversating.

  • Revered author and anti-Communist Arthur Koestler repeatedly abused women and committed at least one rape, alleges a new British biography serialized in the Daily Telegraph . The book, by Southampton University Professor David Cesarani, claims that in 1951 Koestler violently assaulted Jill Craigie, the wife of former Labor Party leader Michael Foot.

  • Any discussion of what constitutes style must encompass tributaries as diverse as the lavatory humor found in Gargantua & Pantagruel and the exquisite diction presiding over Belinda's toilette in The Rape of the Lock .


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