This page shows Crime in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Crime in a sentence
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Crime meaning
- A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
- Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
- That which occasions crime.
Synonyms of Crime
Example sentences (20)
On a plus, Idaho ranks 5 in crime rate, so you are unlikely to deal with any crime on a date or be dating a criminal.
But there's another crime or would-be crime that is one of the scariest, perhaps especially for women: Stalking.
Now, Abalimba’s life of crime is being laid bare in ITV’s new true-crime documentary series Cons And Swindles.
The guns can, though, at the same time be coming from states with less violent crime into states with more violent crime.
Crime topped the list of priorities for the first time in 20 years, with 19% saying crime was the state’s biggest problem.
They were exonerated in 2002 after Matias Reyes confessed to the crime, with DNA evidence connecting him to the crime scene.
Hulu has renewed the true-crime anthology series and the new season, titled Wild Crime: Blood Mountain, will debut next week.
The 7 October attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians was a war crime and, like every war crime, an outrage.
The short story is the prosecution failed to prove the crime, then the defendant admitted to committing the crime on the stand.
Granger also said Lich could not aid or abet a crime without the knowledge of a crime being committed.
The National Crime Agency has been alerted to the crisis amid fears organised crime gangs or terrorists could access the information.
Dr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner said: “As with all crime figures, we need to interpret them with care.
Residents face a concerning one in 98 chance of falling victim to violent crime and a one in 35 probability of encountering property crime.
Meanwhile, the Metreon Target, which certainly gets hit by crime, had 486 such incidents (nearly six times as much crime!) yet it remains open.
There’s even something called, “The Law of Crime Concentration,” which holds that roughly 5% of locations in a city account for half the crime.
A crime is handled by the police in the jurisdiction where the crime was committed.
Dorset Police’s Rural Crime Team was formed in 2016 in a bid to tackle rural crime.
It delivers on the Police and Crime Commissioner Andrew Snowden's Fighting Crime Plan priority of reducing anti-social behaviour across the county.
Being poor is not the crime; the continued punishment for being poor is the crime.
The Costa Rican Congress recently made a significant move in the fight against organized crime by approving a reform to the Law against Organized Crime.
Phrases with crime
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Common combinations with crime
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the crime 34×
- violent crime 30×
- crime and 30×
- organised crime 23×
- and crime 23×
- crime is 23×
- of crime 23×
- crime in 16×
- hate crime 16×
- crime commissioner 14×
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