Sentence for crime | Use crime in a sentence

Crime example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use crime in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for crime.

• What crime had she committed? (8)
• I knew him before the crime too. (12)
• The carnival of crime ended at once. (16)
• The crime you have committed is a very serious one. (8)
• But it is a crime to gain sight and hearing and a heart. (12)
• She has been guilty of the immense crime of ingratitude. (10)
• To be unmarried was regarded by the Intendant and the King as a crime. (19)
• It was as if both sides had suddenly repented of their profitless crime. (1)
• A monstrous crime had been committed, involving the honour of the family. (10)
• Even before the discovery of the crime his behaviour attracted attention. (12)
• Shortly thereafter Le Loutre descended from craft to the crime of bloodshed. (19)
• I am not disposed to purchase the honours now offered me by committing a crime. (19)
• The popular tale of adventure and crime Would equally sicken an overdone taste. (10)
• What would have been contemptible weakness in any instance was sheer crime here. (12)
• She committed her real crime when she married young Hornblower without telling him. (8)
• There was no crime complete enough to express my disapproval of human institutions. (2)
• The hand had no warmth: it was the hand of the deed, the hand of crime, the hand of guilt. (12)
• What good or bad angel came in a dream to rouse him from his state of crime, who shall say? (1)
• The defence set up is that he was not in a responsible condition when he committed the crime. (8)
• One is that he desires to save an accomplice who might be tracked from the scene of the crime. (12)
• Reared in the tradition of thrift, she held it to be a crime to spend money not actually earned. (13)
• But if detected he would be dead shortly afterward, death being the just and legal penalty of his crime. (1)
• One look at her face suffices to convince one that she is familiar with every vice and with every crime. (12)
• Although an able man, he was a terrible coward, and shrank from no crime, no falsehood, to gain his ends. (19)
• He has been imprisoned for a crime of which he is eventually declared not to have been properly convicted. (7)
• Madge went straightway to her mistress and related her great event, in the tone of a confession of crime. (10)
• Miss Cotton gave a small jump at the word, as if she had already committed the crime: she had longed to do it. (9)
• An immemorial crime is symbolized there, an ancient guilt; the Crucified One sighs across lands and ages to my ear. (12)
• It is such a terrible crime in this part of the country, and she looks so wretched and frightened, poor little thing! (8)
• To this it may be answered that punishment for crime is not intended to be retaliatory, but admonitory and deterrent. (7)
• Considering what human nature has the misfortune to be, it is wonderful that there was so little of violence and crime. (7)
• Perhaps Judas Iscariot could have done what the Master did, but the Master preceded him, and that doomed him to crime. (12)
• Far be it from them: though indeed either of these had been esteemed light in the balance compared with their real crime. (6)
• The hasty concealment of a body in the hay behind the cages in the menagerie tent temporarily hid evidence of the crime. (21)
• It proceeded not from the mutineers or their reign of crime, but from her own mind and from the profound logic of things. (12)
• She is a married woman, and the fact is patent that you committed this crime with the view of furthering an immoral design. (8)
• I remember an interesting demonstration I witnessed of his confidence in the word of a man to whom no crime was unfamiliar. (21)
• I would urge no exculpation for the editor who exploits crime, scatters filth, and infects the community with moral poison. (16)
• No individual could bear the sight of such a crime, and no suffering man could be appeased by a single victim to atone for it. (10)
• As for the craven mutineers, when they stole back guiltily to England, they were seized and made to pay the penalty of their crime. (19)
• When the great heart of England is stirred by quick cupidity to profitable crime, far be it from us to lift our palms in deprecation. (7)
• The Counsel for the prosecution, a little, alert, grey, decided man, above military age, began detailing the circumstances of the crime. (8)
• We should be admitting that the war, so costly to our prosperity, so incalculably dear in hopeful lives, was both a blunder and a crime. (14)
• Both of the defendants referred to were convicted of the crime for which they were indicted, and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. (16)
• Her head rang with some of the lines, and she accused her head of the crime of childishness, seeing that her heart was not an accomplice. (10)
• It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse. (4)
• When the police frankly accused him of the crime, he first broke down, but immediately thereafter resisted arrest with the utmost violence. (12)
• All because they funk that brigand-beast Werner, who gets redemption from Laach, hard by his hold, whenever he commits a crime worth paying for. (10)

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