Use the word crime in a sentence

Examples of how to use the word “crime” in a sentence. How to connect “crime” with other words to make correct English sentences.

crime (n): illegal activities

Use “crime” in a sentence

They commit a serious crime.

He is the victim of a terrible crime.

There is an alarming increase in crime these years. Back to “3000 Most Common Words in English”

Sentence Examples

The application for commutation of the death sentence of Edward J. Gallagher for the crime of murder in the first degree is herewith denied.

a woman whose only crime was the protection of her soul… against the avarice of this man.

It was the cleanest crime scene in the history of crime.

This was an accident and I don’t want my son’s memory to be linked to a crime or a murder case.

I don’t want the memory of my son tarnished by having him associated with some crime or a murder case.

It is my duty to tell you that as such you don’t have to answer any questions about the crime and you have the right to have an attorney with you.

You’re left handed. That a crime now, is it?

Now, the brutal murder, last night, of Janice Caldwell is a scathing indictment of the police department’s failure, of our failure, to cope with crime on the most fundamental levels.

Commissioner, specifically what steps are you taking to offset this rash of crime in the Bel Air area?

I’m concentrating my efforts on the robbery aspects of this crime, and you’re right.

He and his family, they will forgive you for your crime?

Besides, I shall deny your accusations I do not believe its a crime and…

One who had committed such a crime could not live among other people.

I’ll leave as soon as I can so as not to commit a crime.

An iniquitous crime against the State.

«He is acting so superior in order to conceal his new crime.»

You devil, do not request that, before you go to hell, I reveal for all the world to see a crime

Confess your crime, you are the murderer!

«And still we broke them and committed a horrible crime.»

The new crime was promising new laurels for Kravtsov.

I have the feeling, that these hands are drawing me … to crime ….

The crime-crushing criminologist

I had an appointment with Lia Leid at the scene of the crime.

Mother, I committed a crime and I must pay

Did the man you saw with Mr. Arlington look as if he would commit such a crime?

«For now before the Judge severe No crime can pass unpunished here. «

We’d like to know if you observed anything relevant to the crime committed last night in the house nearby.»

«In your nightmare, the small wound on your wife’s neck flowed together with the crime in the nearby house for this reason you saw yourself condemned as a murderer.»

And I know nothing of this crime…

The Rock of Mauprat still harbors strange occupants men who are no strangers to crime!

Bernard is quite capable of such a crime and his past conduct and brutal nature leave him open to suspicion.

for being guilty of the crime of lese majeste.»

As if being rich was a crime!

I will have to convince you that I have nothing to do with the crime.

I knew that the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime.

What a shame … An experiment by a cynical scientist … a daughter of vice and crime.

«Say, crime Wave… why didn’t Blake come?»

Dreaming of fame and money he was ready even to commit crime.

There won’t be any more witnesses of his crime.

Between us we can solve this crime.

Would you take the Inspector and his men to the scene of the crime.

-Now you’re here to pay for that crime… with ten years of your life.

Murderer returns to the scene of his crime.

The crime of murder in England, at least, is judged dispassionately.

Before their first performance, they are driven here like a criminal to the scene of the crime.

You know how I got lost in crime and sin? Bad company.

Sentences starting with crime

• Crime would be less also; for while there would, doubtless, be some old sinners, the criminal class, which is very largely under thirty, would be much smaller than it is now. [4]
• Crime was not his vocation. [11]
• Crime and sin, being the preserves of two great organized interests, have been guarded against all reforming poachers with as great jealousy as the Royal Forests. [6]

Sentences ending with crime

• It is true you do not shout, and you do not linger, you only whisper and skip—still, what little you do in the matter is complimentary to the crime. [5]
• I am assured you are not the man who committed the crime. [11]
• To outspan now would be a crime. [11]
• He had lived with «a familiar spirit» so long, he feared the issue of this next excursion into the fens of crime. [11]
• But—to spring the whole twenty-two on a person unprepared and not very strong anyway—‘ ‘Oh, it was a crime! [5]
• Why, indeed, might we not feel pity for a woman whose brilliant career had been so suddenly extinguished in misfortune and crime? [5]
• Had she not turned Dauphin’s human sympathies into a crime? [11]
• A host of torturing thoughts haunted her unbidden; they were not to be exorcised, and added to her misery: Neforis dead; the residence in the hands of the Arabs; Orion bereft of his possessions and held guilty of a capital crime. [10]
• They sold themselves to the devil—such is their crime. [5]
• My wife likes to go to Mass, but always does so secretly, as if she were committing a crime. [10]

Short sentences using crime

• The great crime was accomplished. [5]
• These add crime to confusion. [7]
• That comes after the crime. [5]
• There’s no crime in either. [11]
• What crime has he committed? [10]
• Is it a crime? [5]
• And for what crime? [5]
• There was no crime. [5]
• You are committing a crime. [9]
• That’s a crime! [9]

Sentences containing crime two or more times

• Then in strong, unmerciful voice he laid Achmet’s crime before them, and told the story of the bridge-opener, who had that day expiated his crime in the desert by the hands of Mahommed—but not with torture, as Mahommed had hoped might be. [11]
• Afterwards, however, as the Partners all talked together up-stairs, the enormity of the dead man’s crime had fastened on him, and his brain had been stunned by the terrible thought that directly or indirectly Jasmine had abetted the crime. [11]
• Oh, to rob the living of name and honors for a selfish and temporary advantage is crime enough, but to rob the defenceless dead—why it is more than crime, it degrades crime! [5]
• Now you see that this constant impact of crime upon crime protects you against further commission of crime. [5]
• If you don’t reflect when you commit a crime then that crime is of no use; it might just as well have been committed by some one else: You must reflect or the value is lost; you are not vaccinated against committing it again. [5]
• To steal the paper on which an author has put his brain work into visible, tangible form is in all lands a crime, larceny, but to steal the brain work is not a crime. [4]
• In the field of crime, responsibility is most often calculated, not upon the crime itself, but upon how the thing is done. [11]
• A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. [5]
• He would expiate his crime and his sin, the crime of homicide for which he alone was responsible, the sin of secrecy for which he and another were responsible. [11]
• Philip had married Guida secretly; but his new future had opened up to him all at once, and he had married again—a crime, but a crime which in high places sometimes goes unpunished. [11]

More example sentences with the word crime in them

• I have warned you, sir, and warn you again of the consequences of your meditated crime, and I give you my word I will do all in my power to frustrate it. [9]
• Clear out with you!—you’ve been guilty of a great crime, you whelp! [5]
• In spite of wrong and injury, it would live on and on; and neither Time nor crime, nor anything mortal could obliterate it from his heart’s oracles. [11]
• He fancied they would see from his looks that he was already on the way to a great crime, and hid himself behind the projecting gate of a large Egyptian house. [10]
• Lord Mallow, you would be doing as great a crime as Mr. Dyck Calhoun ever committed, or could commit, if you put this order into actual fact. [11]
• Face to face with the man who had tempted him to crime, Lygon had a new sense of boldness, a sudden feeling of reprisal, a rushing desire to put the screw upon him. [11]
• Envy and ill will would also have a share in this affair, and the usually benevolent King knew no mercy where crime against his own person was concerned. [10]
• And the Union will never be safe until the greatest crime of modern times is wiped out in blood. [9]
• I don’t see why this uncharitable feeling should follow me everywhere, and why I should have that crime thrown up to me on all occasions. [5]
• He asked them why they were in prison, and when they said they were Baptists, he smiled, and inquired— «Is that a crime to be shut up for in a prison? [5]
• Probably in the whole history of crime there never was a more peculiar case. [11]
• Because a man who happens to be my double commits a crime, is it right that I, whose reputation is without a mark, should be made to suffer? [9]
• But all men who commit crime are not necessarily in the criminal class. [4]
• Yes, a fondness which only his crime makes impossible. [11]
• In the hush which followed, our crime was recited, the death warrant read, then everybody uncovered while a priest uttered a prayer. [5]
• For a crime which does not taint her purity our judges have to-day condemned to death a beautiful and spotless maiden—a stranger, and at the same time a Greek and a heretic Melchite. [10]
• By the trenches, where five men had died so bravely, and a traitorous pasha had paid the full penalty of a crime and won a soldier’s death, David spoke to his living comrades. [11]
• Were it otherwise, were you not from first to last unworthy, would you have—but no, your worst crime need not be judged here. [11]
• Bad as Marchand was, to prevent his crime was far better than punishing him for it afterwards. [11]
• How hard it was to refrain from flinging in her teeth the crime her wicked son. [10]
• Surely self-preservation, that was the first law; surely no known code of human practice called upon him to share the daily crimes of any living soul—it was a daily repetition of his crime for this traitor to carry on the atrocious lie of patriotism. [11]
• The original conception was that the offender against the law should be punished, and that the punishment should be made to fit the crime, an ‘opera bouffe’ conception which has been abandoned in reasoning though not in practice. [4]
• But his crime was so great that, according to the law of Egypt, his nearest relations were to be seized and punished with him. [10]
• The prelate, who was full of admiration for Thomas’ daughter, told Katharina how, to save her lover, she had taken a crime upon herself which deprived her of every claim to mercy. [10]
• When the King was beheaded at Whitehall he mourned and lamented the miserable crime with the best of his countrymen. [11]
• Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. [5]
• He was a very good fellow, only he was out of luck, and surely that was no crime at that time in France. [5]
• To speak plain truth, troopers are looking for me, and —strange as it may be—for a crime which I didn’t commit. [11]
• He stated a truth, and did it in such a pleasant way, and salved over my sore spot so gently and so healingly, that I was rather glad I had committed the crime, far the sake of the letter. [5]
• But that wretch treats all laughter and the most innocent fun as a crime, or so interprets it that it seems so. [10]
• Dupont was coming to-night—Dupont who had profited by the crime, and had not spent his profits, but had built upon them to further profit; for Dupont was avaricious and prudent, and a born criminal. [11]
• Dupont was coming to-night, and the hatchet of crime was to be dug up again. [11]
• Is it well to turn the penalty for a bloody crime into a reward? [5]
• It was left to the man of the reedy lake to pay the penalty of apprehension, to suffer the effects of crime upon a nature not naturally criminal. [11]
• He had come to stay a traitor in his crime, and here he found a martyr. [11]
• I’ve no crime to repent of, and I’m afraid of nothing in the last resort. [11]
• He therefore ventured to give no decided answer, but enquired, «Has the woman committed some crime that you are pursuing her? [10]
• It had seemed to Cleopatra a crime to claim the blood of the noblest sons of the city for a cause which she herself deemed lost. [10]
• Are there not times when to obey is a crime, and is not this one of them? [11]
• Suicide during former times was not generally considered as a crime (33. [1]
• So, you see, time sometimes leads to crime. [5]
• He had a thousand virtues and one crime. [4]
• He answered the thought: «From ten years of pain and slow recovery from an accident, and then from nineteen years’ pollution, shame, depravity, crime, ending with death at the hands of the executioner. [5]
• He stirred, as though to shake off the net that he felt twisting round him, in the hands of the robust and powerful Dupont, on whom crime sat so lightly, who had flourished while he, Lygon, had gone lower and lower. [11]
• It was as though he wanted to make amends in advance for the crime he had not yet committed. [10]
• A matter like this would rank merely as an error with you and me; it ranks as a crime with the directors of steamship companies. [5]
• The breach of this law, even when the breach is known to be strictly accordant with true morality, has caused many a man more agony than a real crime. [1]
• But in doing this it does not say that other aspects of our public peril from crime are not as important as this. [4]
• You have committed this crime, and you deserve to have all you are going to get. [5]
• He must prevent this crime, and warn the Governor. [11]
• In the law this crime is called Non compos mentis lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi. [5]
• Do you not think there may be a crime which is not a sin? [6]
• It was the thing that never dies, the love that defies injury, shame, crime, deceit, and desertion, and lives pityingly on, knowing all, enduring all, desiring no touch, no communion, yet prevailing—the indestructible thing. [11]
• Don’t you think there is too much leniency toward crime and criminals, taking the place of justice, in these days? [4]
• Every now and then the Emperor imprisons a man who is suspected of the crime of being rich, and makes things so uncomfortable for him that he is forced to discover where he has hidden his money. [5]
• No one punished them for the crime, for they did not fear the barking of the lap-dog, and this gave even those who could read, courage not to heed the warning. [10]
• And men lost their wits and looked on at the crime, flinging the delight of the gods into the water and the kiln. [10]
• Why not put the whole system of criminal jurisprudence and procedure for the suppression of crime upon a sensible and scientific basis? [4]
• With it came the voice that called him in the night, the voice of a woman—of the wife he had given to the lions for a crime against him which she did not commit, which had haunted him all the years. [11]
• The results of the vast crime of the 13th January have been in just proportion to the magnitude of the set itself. [5]
• The results of the vast crime of the 13th January have been in just proportion to the magnitude of the act itself. [5]
• This fortune, upon the sudden death of its creator, had been largely diverted from its charitable destination by fraud, by a crime that would have fallen within the code if it had been known. [4]
• And ergo, in the strict spirit of the law, since you deliberately intended to marry Edwitha, and didn’t do it, you are married to her all the same—because, as I said before, the intention constitutes the crime. [5]
• The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that Nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder. [6]
• She bear all the shame, all the pain, for the crime of you. [11]
• This but increased the rage against the foreigner, and was another crime to lay to his charge. [11]
• In such cases the purposes of men are much more easily understood than in cases of ordinary crime. [7]
• While doing so, the outlaw said to him: «Father Corraine, I am hunted like a coyote for a crime I did not commit. [11]
• Tribal punishment is the only proper thing for individual crime. [11]
• The favour which the most illustrious of mortals showed her they imputed to her as a crime. [10]
• It would be the greatest happiness of my life if I could restore his property to you, where he would have had it go, and deprive that villain, your uncle, of the fruits of his crime. [9]
• Besides, what is the great crime he has committed? [10]
• At last, in the fulness of time, the fruits of sin ripened in a sudden harvest of crime. [6]
• There was also the fact that no motive for the crime had been shown. [11]
• Send him to the devil with a true bill of crime. [11]
• Today or to-morrow the crime was to be perpetrated. [10]
• If I committed the crime of ringing a bell, I might get thrown overboard. [5]
• I had committed the crime of crimes—I had lifted my hand against a pilot on duty! [5]
• The sorrow of the crime killed his mother. [11]
• There was always the crime for which he or Billy must be punished. [11]
• Well, it is the business of the Law to detect and punish crime. [11]
• You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! [5]
• The crime of the Alexandrian wits could not be left unpunished. [10]
• Then, she remembered that the crime was not to be committed until next night, and there was the intermediate time for thinking, and resolving what to do. [12]
• It was certain that she had champions who thought that her wrongs ought to be placed against her crime, and expressions of this feeling came to her in various ways. [5]
• It is simply that I cannot admit the possibility of having committed the crime. [9]
• He knew now that he had made a foolish blunder then, that the scheme had been one of his failures; but he had never looked on it as with eyes reproving crime. [11]
• I knew about that crime, but I was not the criminal; it was a cousin of mine of the same name. [5]
• The only crime that can be brought against him is that he was unfortunate. [5]
• She meant to tell the truth about Louis Trudel, and show how good this man was, who stood charged with an imaginary crime. [11]
• Terrible examples have taught you how he punishes disobedience and crime. [2]
• The human law takes cognizance of crime and not of sin. [4]
• The court cannot take up this crime until the prisoner has expiated the other one. [5]
• He had no sympathy with crime. [11]
• They agreed to swear the finger-biting on the Greaser in open court, and get him sent to the penitentiary for the crime of mayhem. [5]
• Now, as Mahommed swam, he kept moaning to himself, cursing his father and his father’s son, as though he himself were to blame for the crime which had been committed. [11]
• I have always suspected Grafton Carvel capable of any crime! [9]
• One would have supposed I had committed a crime of some kind. [5]
• All of a sudden I got a notice to leave, or I would be exposed for a horrible crime committed long before—years and years before—in the East. [5]
• But that crime struck at the foundation of society. [4]

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crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.

1. [uncountable]:  illegal activities in general:

It would be a crime to travel without passport.

1. [countable]:  an illegal action, which can be punished by law:

He insisted that he had not committed any crime.

COLLOCATIONS :

commit crime ( Not do, make, perform)

 turn to crime (=start committing crimes)

 crime rate (=the amount of crime that happens somewhere)

serious crime (Not  heavy)

petty crime (=crime that is not very serious)   

British English street crime

juvenile/youth crime (=by children and teenagers)

tough on crime (=always punishing crime severely)

Examples:

We moved here because there was very little crime.

Women                commit far less crime than men.

Police officers are being given new powers to help combat crime.

the reasons why people               turn to crime.

a town with a relatively low crime rate.

The latest crime figures                show a drop in the number of robberies.

We need to focus more on crime prevention.

Violent crime is on the increase in the city.

There’s been a rise in serious crime in the area.

He became involved in petty crime as a teenager.

a police crackdown on car crime.

Street crime was rising rapidly in Moscow.

a new support group for victims of crime.

Politicians are trying to appear tough on crime. 

Young men are more likely to commit crime.

She has committed a terrible crime.

3. a life of crime        

when someone spends their life stealing and committing other crimes, in order to get money to live.

4. the perfect crime  

a crime that no one knows has been committed, so no one can be punished for it.

5. crime of passion     

a crime, especially murder, caused by sexual  jealousy.

6. crime against humanity    

a crime of cruelty against large numbers of people, especially in a war.

7. crime doesn’t pay 

used to say that crime does not give you any advantage, because you will be caught and punished — used when warning people not to get involved in crime.

8. it’s a crime 

spoken said when you think something is very wrong, and someone should not do it:

It would be a crime to waste all that good food.

9. crime against        

Crimes against the elderly are becoming more common.

Police are still busy hunting for clues at the scene of the crime (=where the crime happened).

➔ WORD FOCUS: crime

crimes that involve stealing things:         robbery, burglary, theft, shoplifting, fraud, carjacking

crimes that involve attacking people :    assault, mugging, murder, rape

someone who commits crimes: criminal, thief, crook, burglar, mugger, robber, pickpocket, rapist, offender, law-breaker-crime ➔             criminal, offence, felony, organized crime, war crime.

Idioms:

1. Crime doesn’t pay: crime will ultimately not benefit a person.

No matter how tempting it may appear, crime doesn’t pay.

1. Partners in crime: persons who cooperate in committing a crime.

The sales manager and the salesman are nothing but partners in crime.

1. Poverty is not a crime: you shouldn’t condemn someone for being poor.

I wish there were a law to help all those people, Poverty is not a crime.

• References:
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  • Collin cobuild advanced learners dictionary
  • Cambridge phrasal verbs
  • Longman contemporary dictionary