in-a-sentence.com, use criminal in a sentence

Use criminal in a sentence

Sentences starting with criminal

Criminal kings with gold are welcome; criminal subjects without gold-- ah, that is another matter, monsieur. [11]

Sentences ending with criminal

She would first wonder, then doubt, and then believe at last that he was a common criminal. [11]
Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal. [2]
He was no vulgar criminal. [10]
Then he bid us quit him, promising that he would once more examine into the matter of that young criminal. [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]
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]
At the same time he could not doubt a word that she said, for the voice within him had long since plainly told him that this woman was no common criminal. [10]
The idea floated through his mind, for he thought of everything; but he was a lawyer, and not a fool, and had no idea of figuring in court as a criminal. [6]
What she was thinking of as she sang with Kerry's coat in her hand it would be hard to discover by the process of elimination, as the detectives say when tracking down a criminal. [11]
Do you consider that your conduct is not criminal? [11]

Short sentences using criminal

Nothing intentionally criminal in it. [5]
Or a criminal? [4]
Criminal? [11]

Sentences containing criminal two or more times

The fact is, we go on increasing our expenses for police, for criminal procedure, for jails and prisons, and we go on increasing the criminal class and those affiliated with it. [4]
The introduction of the indeterminate sentence into our criminal procedure would be a radical change in our criminal legislation and practice. [4]
Under this conception the criminal code was arbitrarily constructed, so much punishment being set down opposite each criminal offense, without the least regard to the actual guilt of the man as an individual sinner. [4]
It goes without saying that it is opposed by the entire criminal class, and by that very considerable portion of the population which is dependent on or affiliated with the criminal class, which seeks to evade the law and escape its penalties. [4]
To his mind, never a criminal in this land but less a criminal than he! [11]
The two most distinguished criminal lawyers in the city had been retained for her defence, and to that the resolute woman devoted her days with a courage that rose as she consulted with her counsel and understood the methods of criminal procedure in New York. [5]
How far we are from this, we see when we attempt to make criminal anthropology the basis of criminal legislation. [4]
We have tried all other means of protecting society, of lessening the criminal class, of reforming the criminal. [4]
It had been a deuce of a day, but it was coming right; he felt sure that the upper court would dissolve the injunction; the best counsel said so; and the criminal proceedings--"Had there been criminal proceedings? [4]

More example sentences with the word criminal in them

Now how do you know that the suspected criminal was an infidel, Monsieur? [11]
Why, they'll have you in the criminal court...." "Oh, nonsense, nonsense! [2]
We expend more yearly for apprehending and trying those caught, for the machinery of criminal justice, and for the recurring farce of imprisoning on short sentences and discharging those felons to go on with their work of swindling and robbing. [4]
From thence they would cross the peninsula of Sinai, and strive to reach the Egyptian army by forced marches, and make the king acquainted with Ani's criminal attempts. [10]
Melissa had succumbed with the rest; she had shouted and waved her kerchief, and had not heeded Andreas when he held her hand and asked her to consider what a criminal this man was whom she so eagerly hailed. [10]
I have sympathised with the just, but I have always felt that I'd like to help the criminal to escape his punishment. [11]
He was vexed with himself, that he could feel so little anger against a criminal, whose guilt was deserving of death, and reproached himself for lukewarmness. [10]
She knew at whose bidding the avenging angel had entered there, and whose criminal guile had trifled with him. [10]
But all men who commit crime are not necessarily in the criminal class. [4]
The manner in which he had attempted to rid himself of the rival seemed criminal enough, yet the nocturnal attack had scarcely concerned him personally, and he would not condemn the man who was usually so calm and sensible without having heard him. [10]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
If my son were a thousand times a criminal, nevertheless I would ache to take him by the hand. [11]
Don't you see we'd all be jugged and fined for assisting a criminal over the border? [9]
In these days, we photograph the new criminal, and hang his picture in the Rogues' Gallery for future reference; but that Frenchman, in his day, used to take a print of the ball of a new prisoner's thumb and put that away for future reference. [5]
By our conduct we are encouraging the growth of the criminal class, and we are inviting disregard of law, and diffusing a spirit of demoralization throughout the country. [4]
The Colonel and Washington promised to procure all these things, and then took their sorrowful leave, a great deal more affected than the criminal was, apparently, by her situation. [5]
Sinner he once was, criminal never, as one can testify who knows all"--he turned to the Abbe Rossignol, who stood beside him, grave and compassionate-- "and his sins were forgiven him. [11]
But now it was the Governor who turned pale, seeing who the criminal was. [11]
This afternoon it was still in the place to which some criminal hand afterwards found access, and attached that gem instead. [10]
By Charles Dudley Warner The problem of dealing with the criminal class seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods. [4]
Those who have unimpaired memories may recollect the fortune amassed, many years previous to this history, by one Rodney Henderson, gathered and enlarged by means not indictable, but which illustrate the wide divergence between the criminal code and the moral law. [4]
And Rosalie, who trusted him-- this new element rapidly grew dominant in his thoughts-to be the common criminal in her eyes! [11]
Why should we tolerate any longer a professional criminal class? [4]
If we add to them those at large who have served one or two terms, and are generally known to the police, we shall not have probably more than eighty thousand of the criminal class. [4]
He was subject to the same weariness of the flesh and fatigue of the spirit as all men; yet it was expected of him that at any hour he should be at the disposal of suffering humanity--of criminal or idiotic humanity--patient, devoted, calm, nervestrung, complete. [11]
Legislation in regard to the parole system has also considered whether a man should be considered in the criminal class on his first conviction for a penal offense. [4]
It is patent to the most superficial observation that our present method does not protect society, and does not lessen the number of the criminal class, either by deterrent methods or by reformatory processes, except in a very limited way. [4]
Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte. [2]
He can decide to lead an honest life and have his liberty, or he can elect to work for the State all his life in criminal confinement. [4]
Any legislation likely to interfere seriously with the occupation of the criminal class or with its increase is certain to meet with the opposition of a large body of voters. [4]
Jack, you ought to be ashamed of yourself--you ought to be ashamed of such criminal ignorance. [5]
It was for this reason that Timotheus, on rejoining his household, had assured them that, as he thought over this interview, he expected something good--yes, perhaps the best--from the young criminal in the purple. [10]
Some think that this murder is a frenzied revolt against the criminal militarism which is impoverishing Europe and driving the starving poor mad. [5]
Leave it to them to punish the criminal, for Osiris withdraws his favor from those who choose the fiend for their ally. [10]
The market gives them facts enough; politics, lies enough; art, affectations enough; criminal news, horrors enough; fashion, more than enough of vanity upon vanity, and vexation of purse. [4]
Why not put the whole system of criminal jurisprudence and procedure for the suppression of crime upon a sensible and scientific basis? [4]
Society suffers all the time, and the professional criminal goes on with his occupation, interrupted only by periods of seclusion, during which he is comfortably housed and fed. [4]
You believe, with the rest of them, that I'm a criminal and deserve the penitentiary. [9]
And this is the reason why psychological studies of the abnormal, or biographies of criminal lunatics, are only interesting to pathologists and never become classics in literature. [4]
It was not the look of a criminal, whatever the man might be- -mutineer and murderer. [11]
They call Octavia the lawful wife, and Cleopatra the criminal who robbed her of her husband's heart. [10]
So shameful was the Khedive in her eyes that the prisoner seemed Criminal made Martyr. [11]
You know what the jailer said to the criminal who was hanging on a reprieve: 'Rope deferred maketh the heart sick. [11]
The criminal has the habit of doing wrong. [4]
The application of the English ticket-of-leave system was one of these efforts; it was based upon the notion that, if any criminal showed sufficient evidence of a wish to lead a different life, he should be conditionally released before the expiration of his sentence. [4]
We think of the criminal who was sentenced to be kept awake till he died. [4]
Those who watch the criminal reports are alarmed by the fact that an increasing number of those arrested for felonies are discharged convicts. [4]
He had heard the criminal hireling of Felix Marchand say that it should be done at midnight, and that the explosive should be laid under that part of the bridge which joined the Manitou bank of the Sagalac. [11]
Until you feel that you are freed from this persecutor, it would be criminal to bind a loving woman to you and your destiny. [10]
Can it be that ye're helping to lift a criminal over the border? [9]
It happens, therefore, that there is great sympathy with the career of the lawbreakers, many people are hanging on them for support, and among them the so-called criminal lawyers. [4]
He told himself that he was on the point of becoming a traitor and a criminal, the visions he had just beheld passed before him again, but this time it was another, and a different one which gained the foremost place. [10]
They had not taken horses, doubtless because Billy thought it would hardly be valiant and adventurous enough, and because neither Bingong nor Eversofar owned one, and it might look criminal to go off with mine. [11]
Glaucus was excessively startled to recognize Serapion, but he was so much engaged that he could only give up a few minutes to his brother, whose proceedings he considered as both inexplicable and criminal. [10]
The protection of society by the removal and reform of the criminal class, when the public determines upon it, will call into the service a class of men fitted for the great work. [4]
I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. [5]
Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [5]
To have simply skinned me alive and considered his duty at an end would have seemed to him criminal leniency toward one so sinning. [5]
It is very significant that the criminal class adapted itself readily to the parole system with its sliding scale. [4]
It is little short of criminal of him. [9]
A U. S. Senator-Cullom--wants this Buffalo criminal lynched! [5]
I do not say it was a consciously criminal act, he probably saw no way out himself. [9]
But yet, what right had she to sacrifice this man she loved to the perverted criminal who had spoiled her youth and taken away from her every dear illusion of her life and heart? [11]
There is no reason why a professional criminal, who won't change his trade for an honest one, should have intervals of freedom in his prison life in which he is let loose to prey upon society. [4]
We buried the real criminal the other day--the unhappiest man that has lived in a century--Flint Buckner. [5]
And science is ready to take up this problem when the public is tired and ashamed of being any longer harried and bullied and terrorized over by the criminal class. [4]
He took cases, preferably criminal cases, for which very often he got no pay; but that, too, ceased at last. [11]
Her heart was pleading for him--for the criminal. [11]
If a man plays the fool, the coward, and the criminal, he must expect to wear the fool's cap, the white feather, and the leg-chain until his life's end. [11]
Here he was penned up in a little island, chained to a criminal having the fame of a martyr. [11]
In short, the ordinary criminal is unsound and diseased in mind and body. [4]
A criminal is one who violates a statute law, or, as we say, commits a crime. [4]
Crioni went at once to the palace, denounced the criminal, and handed over the carbuncle as evidence. [5]
He will go on--and to go on, all means, so they be not criminal, will be his. [11]
We had dinner on a ground-veranda over the water--the chief dish the renowned fish called the pompano, delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. [5]
Everybody believed the old man, who was safe, no matter what happened to himself, Ranulph Delagarde, ex-artilleryman, ship-builder-- and son of a criminal. [11]
Somehow, in spite of the criminal record with which Calhoun's life was stained, they had a respect for him they did not have for Lord Mallow. [11]
I have spoken of the criminal class as very limited; that is, the class that lives by the industry of crime alone. [4]
Besides, the safety of society, the decencies of criminal procedure, what we call our modern civilization, all would demand that Laura should be disposed of in the manner we have described. [5]
In the flush of his criminal freedom he had married again--with the woman who shared his home on the little hillside, behind the Parish Church, she believing him a widower. [11]
But he thought of Di Welldon and of her criminal brother, and every nerve, every faculty was screwed to its utmost limit of endurance and capacity. [11]
In the absence of a more adequate motive than the evidence discloses, I am wholly unable to believe in the existence of criminal or fraudulent intent on the part of men of such well established good character. [7]
Indeed, the most notorious criminal is the greatest legal advertisement, and the fortunate part of the business is that no lawyer is ever identified with the morals, crimes or virtues of his client, yet has particular advantage from his crimes. [11]
That is, the notion that you can do something more with a criminal than punish him; and that society has not done its duty when it has built a sufficient number of schools for one class, or of decent jails for another. [4]
The statute law, no doubt, prevents many persons from committing crime, but our method of administering it certainly does not lessen the criminal class, and it does not adequately protect society. [4]
So this was New Caledonia, the home of outcast, criminal France, the recent refuge of Communist exiles, of Rochefort, Louise Michel, Felix Rastoul, and the rest! [11]
I should think myself a criminal if I said anything to chill the enthusiasm of the young scholar, or to dash with any skepticism his longing and his hope. [4]
She and Caracalla must go on divergent roads, Her duty now was to fight for her own happiness against any who threatened it, and, above all, against the tyrant who had compelled her, innocent as she was, to hide like a criminal. [10]
This refractory criminal must be saved from himself, cost what it might, and responsibility again rested heavy on my client's mind as I rowed him out to the Maria. [9]
She had been moved to deep pity, for in spite of what he had told her of his business transactions, it was impossible for her to think of him as a criminal. [9]
Julia Domna, Caracalla's mother, had encouraged the philosopher in this task, which was to show her passionate and criminal son the dignity of moderation and virtue. [10]
The punishment he most fears is being compelled to relinquish his criminal career. [4]
This pleasing picture might perhaps leave some impression on the soul of the young criminal, in whom a preference for good could still, though rarely, be fanned to a flame. [10]
What do we mean by the criminal class? [4]
I have no luck as a criminal, my dear Orion. [10]
His name was Luc Baste--a shock-haired criminal with a huge chest and a big voice, and a born filibuster. [11]
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]
A rare criminal lawyer, likewise, was wasted in her. [9]
Mr. Allen was laughing and joking airily with Mr. Cooke and the guests, denying, but not resenting, their accusations with all the sang froid of a hardened criminal. [9]
There is a large portion of our population not technically criminals, which is interested in maintaining this criminal class. [4]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word criminal in a sentence? How do you use criminal in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word criminal? It contains example sentences with the word criminal, a sentence example for criminal, and criminal in sample sentence.