Below you will find example sentences with "innocent man". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Innocent Man in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: innocent
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "innocent man" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a totally innocent man devoted to, an entirely innocent man opened his, court, murder and people stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with innocent people, iron man, man aged, innocent people, innocent civilians and innocent victims, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with innocent man
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Man charged in road rage crash that killed innocent man. (10 words)
Then it became known that Eave Hopson, an innocent man, had been hanged. (13 words)
It is better for 10 guilty persons to go free than to condemn one innocent man. (16 words)
The decision by a Florence appeals court panel marked the sixth time that an Italian court found Knox had wrongly blamed the killing on an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time. (38 words)
Ben Dawber, 19, Kane Adamson, also 19, and Joshua Prescott, 20, were all jailed for life after murdering Thomas Williamson, an innocent man who was totally unknown to them following a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court. (37 words)
Notably, one of the most important revelations in is that Sirius Black is an innocent man, and the real enemy who ratted out Harry's parents is Peter Pettigrew ( reveal this, but it does so rather chaotically. (37 words)
He was an innocent man, much like many other innocent people who are being persecuted by this now Fascist government of ours, and I was honored to give him a Full Pardon! (32 words)
Even the innocent man in the sports shop soon joins us behind the crowded police counter, pleading for mercy! (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
He was an innocent man, much like many other innocent people who are being persecuted by this now Fascist government of ours, and I was honored to give him a Full Pardon!
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Man charged in road rage crash that killed innocent man.
Ben Dawber, 19, Kane Adamson, also 19, and Joshua Prescott, 20, were all jailed for life after murdering Thomas Williamson, an innocent man who was totally unknown to them following a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court.
Even the innocent man in the sports shop soon joins us behind the crowded police counter, pleading for mercy!
Notably, one of the most important revelations in is that Sirius Black is an innocent man, and the real enemy who ratted out Harry's parents is Peter Pettigrew ( reveal this, but it does so rather chaotically.
She then says that for an innocent man, Randy seemed terrified and that he brought up Jeff at one point.
He asked the jury not to disregard the girl’s own, unchallenged, evidence of consent and said: “Mr Murray is not sitting here masquerading as an innocent man – he is not sitting here trying to mislead people.
Ms Trainor said it was "depressing that a totally innocent man devoted to his work and family was fitted up for a crime he didn't commit".
She insisted Haubert is an innocent man, and said he believed Vinson was grabbing for his gun.
The decision by a Florence appeals court panel marked the sixth time that an Italian court found Knox had wrongly blamed the killing on an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time.
Then it became known that Eave Hopson, an innocent man, had been hanged.
These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court," his attorney said.
This was an unprovoked attack and one which took the life of an innocent man," she said.
He plays Walter McMillian, an innocent man wrongfully convicted of the murder of an 18-year-old girl.
He stayed there, still an innocent man in the eyes of the law, for four and a half years.
It has been five years since Gary Webb, an entirely innocent man, opened his door to two police officers.
It is better for 10 guilty persons to go free than to condemn one innocent man.
This obviously departs from the original adaptation of the Kathleen Barber novel, Are You Sleeping, which focused on a woman who reopens a murder case after realizing she may have helped put an innocent man in jail.
You have proof an innocent man driving most likely to work beaten down by a squeegee kid on video tells a different story.