Sentence examples for crime from inspiring English sources
The word 'crime' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to an illegal or immoral act or behavior. For example, "Car theft is a serious crime."
noun
A specific act committed in violation of the law.
It is a crime under the Act to send "by means of a public electronic communications network" a message or other material that is "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".
He said in his letters the detention had not led him to being charged formally, "much less convicted of any crime".
Still, the story ends with a glorious flourish that should be pure feelgood cheese but actually comes across as uncontrived and genuinely emotional (it would be a crime to spoil it).
Montgomery, who pleaded guilty in 2012, faces life in prison on a hate crime charge and five years on conspiracy.
Shelbie Brooke Richards, who pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy and concealing the crime by lying to police, faces eight years in prison at sentencing on 16 April.
"You have become partners in crime in the murder of judicial independence … Allah be my witness.
Yashin recently said that Nemtsov had hoped that "opening society's eyes to the crime" of Russian soldiers fighting on the side of separatists in eastern Ukraine would help stop the war.
In Uganda, survivors are at risk of arrest by police, as they are likely to assume that they're gay – a crime in this country and in 38 of the 53 African nations.
