Sentence examples for turned crime from inspiring English sources

Jimmy was a free spirit, a bartender turned crime fighter turned firefighter.

Some criminals have destroyed so much of what people believed in and turned crime into one big rat race.

Shelby is a racecourse hustler turned crime lord in interwar Birmingham: extremely violent, extremely determined and centrally defined by an absolute disregard for his own existence.

Linda Fairstein, the former prosecutor turned crime novelist, returns with the 10th in her series of Alex Cooper books, "Killer Heat".

His toolbox is that of a reporter turned crime writer: he sets up every scene with descriptions of interiors or landscape and with staccato portraits of the main characters, which invariably hint at sinister events to come.

While his life as a journalist-turned-screenwriter turned crime novelist has taken him everywhere from the outer Hebrides to seven years spent shadowing the covert inner circle of the Chinese police, May said the autobiographical nature of the book made it particularly good fun to write.

You can almost hear the breathless voice-over: "He's a priest, turned actor, turned crime-fighter".

BRUNO HELLER, the soft-spoken, British-born creator of the CBS series "The Mentalist," about a television psychic turned crime-solving sleuth, was having a good laugh.

Despite no hints that she would like to reprise the role of Jessica Fletcher – the widowed English teacher turned crime-writer-cum-detective from the hit US TV series – Ms Lansbury called the reboot a "mistake" that shouldn't be happening without her character.

He enjoyed the title role in "Hack" — the television series about an ex-cop turned crime-solving cab driver — because the character, he said, "seemed to be a guy who was straddling both worlds, good and bad, and could tip either way".

Batman -- The well-to-do bachelor turned crime-fighter is more of an intellectual than an athlete.