Sentence examples for on a perp from inspiring English sources

Now, treating a fries-munching adolescent like an accused killer on a perp walk may be a bit much.

A scant five years ago the only time you saw Robert Downey Jr. getting big play in your newspaper came when he was on a perp walk.

Treating the scandals that brought them down as an all but inevitable result of their ideological politics, Frank takes DeLay, the convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and many of their allies on a perp walk through his pages.

This lede telegraphed the dope on a perp set to stand trial for cat murder: Before he pulled the trigger, before the car chase, before the cops ran him down and threw him in jail, Jim Stevenson had a calm look at the Texas penal code, and judged that it would permit radical measures in defense of a piping plover.

Easy to see why his friends are upset about him being photographed in handcuffs on a perp walk; the guy looks guiltier than a priest roaming the halls of a boys school with a pocket full of condoms at 3am.

At 73, he seems spry enough to chase down and collar a perp; on that wintry walk through the woods, he interrogated a man carrying a sled, and followed a trail of blood drops in the snow until it disappeared.

For the curious audiophile watching "Alex, Inc.," catching a rare glimpse of a microphone, a recording-equipment bag, or egg-crate padding in a sound booth provided a little frisson of excitement, like seeing an actor friend playing a perp on a police procedural.

When the sputum of someone with pneumonia is stained and examined under a microscope, the germs put on a mesmerizing perp walk.

(A "Perp" perched on top of a refrigerator).

"I heard on the walkie-talkie there's a perp around the corner with a gun and a knife," he said.

I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp".