Below you will find example sentences with "innocent people". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Innocent People in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: innocent
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 25
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.8 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 6 middle, 12 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "innocent people" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 31.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as against his innocent people, as many innocent people as they, killed, see and hurt stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people, indigenous people, innocent civilians, innocent victims and innocent man, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with innocent people

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Maybe the people that were killed were innocent people. (9 words)

It framed people in false cases, misused the CBI, put innocent people in jail. (14 words)

If your pastor is hurting innocent people don’t keep quiet and throw those hurt people to the wolves or silence them. (22 words)

Every day when we go to class, a movie, work, any setting with a large number of people, there’s the risk that some individual has gotten hands on a deadly weapon and has come to the point of being ready to murder as many innocent people as they can. (50 words)

He continued: “We know that these rockets will not stop Bashar and his gangsters in keeping on killing the Syrian people, but they are good to make him aware that there will be a response from now on to all his vicious acts against his innocent people. (47 words)

A week later they were asked to pick the suspect out of lineups. 8% of the people in the lineups were mistakenly identified as criminals. 20% of the innocent people whose photographs were included were mistakenly identified (University of Nebraska 1977). (41 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)

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!

Skeptics may balk at the idea of paying wages to people in jail, but not only are the vast majority merely waiting to be exonerated at trial, the alternative is to continue setting innocent people up to fail upon reentry.

When the Left insists on freeing criminals and legalizing crime, then people will defend themselves, and lacking the training and judgment of law enforcement, innocent people may occasionally die.

Yes sometimes innocent people get caught up just by visiting the same establishment as a terrorist but that's just a numbers game with 8 billion people in the world.

Labour’s national campaign co-ordinator Pat McFadden acknowledged the crisis in Gaza had been “a factor in some places”, saying that with “so many innocent people being killed I’m not surprised people have strong feelings about that”.

Mr. Vance said he didn’t understand why people “can’t see the connection between this person murdering innocent people and the fact that the Confederate flag — by democratic will — still flies” at the South Carolina Statehouse.

However, a reasoned debate about immigration is not the same as saying, immediately after the violent murder of innocent people, including children, "the main reason this happened is because these people are in our country in the first place".

If your pastor is hurting innocent people don’t keep quiet and throw those hurt people to the wolves or silence them.

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Maybe the people that were killed were innocent people.

Since Banner is allegedly within The Hulk, calculating how many people are going to be hurt, then the Hulk can never reach optimal power, out of Banner’s fear that he will hurt innocent people.

At its worst, it is a tool that is used by disgruntled people to settle personal scores, gain publicity, malign innocent people and secure importance.

Every day when we go to class, a movie, work, any setting with a large number of people, there’s the risk that some individual has gotten hands on a deadly weapon and has come to the point of being ready to murder as many innocent people as they can.

He also said awareness should be created among people against the spread of rumors and how they are leading to brutal killing of innocent people.

He continued: “We know that these rockets will not stop Bashar and his gangsters in keeping on killing the Syrian people, but they are good to make him aware that there will be a response from now on to all his vicious acts against his innocent people.

Indian security forces had killed at least three civilians and wounded about 70 when hundreds of people tried to prevent them from carrying out operations against innocent people.

It framed people in false cases, misused the CBI, put innocent people in jail.

Only bad people see this mobilization is a threat, but our honest and innocent people see this move is necessary in order to keep our country safe.

A week later they were asked to pick the suspect out of lineups. 8% of the people in the lineups were mistakenly identified as criminals. 20% of the innocent people whose photographs were included were mistakenly identified (University of Nebraska 1977).

A Meira Paibi leader said that they organised these protest demonstrations as the Assam Rifles is “continuously brutally torturing and harassing the innocent people, including elderly men and women”.

Anwar said Malaysia believes everyone must work together to stop this madness of the continued killing practiced by Israel in Palestine, specifically in the Gaza Strip, which affects the lives of innocent people in hospitals and public places.

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