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Example sentences for "criminals"

Lexicographically close words:
criminal; criminalistic; criminality; criminall; criminally; criminate; criminated; criminating; crimination; criminations
  1. The airplane has placed an entirely new means of escape in the hands of criminals and we must be ready to combat this.

  2. There has been a change in the political set-up in Dearborn and as a result many criminals are going to be driven out of that city and forced to other fields.

  3. Anything I can do to stop it or, after it is committed, to bring the criminals to justice, I'll do.

  4. When it is observed, that the court for the trial of criminals is held once a month, and crowded with business, it would be superfluous to add arguments to such facts.

  5. Judy had forgotten, for the moment, that Peter was part of an organization far better equipped to deal with criminals than she was.

  6. Until Clarence Lawson and his ring of criminals were caught, none of them could be sure who his next victim would be.

  7. He's one of the slickest criminals in the United States.

  8. Their minds, in some way, had been taken over by the minds of the criminals who gave those orders.

  9. My principal occupation consists in the examination and comparison of the finger-prints of criminals and suspected persons.

  10. Among the criminals executed, there were seven fathers who had poisoned their children, ten husbands who had murdered their wives, six wives who had poisoned their husbands, and fifteen children who had destroyed their parents.

  11. But thus denouncing men as criminals who fled for safety from the sabres of assassins, was adding oil to the fire of persecution.

  12. The ancient Egyptians caused criminals to seal their confessions with finger nails.

  13. The discovery of photography was welcomed by the police authorities of civilised countries as affording a certain means of registering criminals for subsequent identification.

  14. There have been some very striking instances of the detection of criminals by means of their finger-prints, a few of which may be quoted by way of illustration.

  15. Faulds, the Chinese from time immemorial have caused their convicted criminals to make impressions of their finger-tips as a record, but he gives no details of their system of classifying the prints, if such exists.

  16. Prior to the introduction of the anthropometric and finger-print systems, the insufficiency of the photographic records kept by the police in this country for the identification of criminals was repeatedly proved.

  17. During the first year of its employment it detected forty-nine criminals giving false names, while in the following year the number rose to 241.

  18. That is twice as much as they use for executing criminals by electricity.

  19. Furthermore, we know that condemned criminals were sometimes handed over to the medical profession to be "operated upon and killed in whatever way they thought best" even as late as the sixteenth century.

  20. With the increased knowledge of anatomy came also corresponding advances in surgery, and many experimental operations are said to have been performed upon condemned criminals who were handed over to the surgeons by the Ptolemies.

  21. I have this book in my possession, and, although in number of criminals it is not quite equal to our Newgate Calendar, it far exceeds it in atrocity of crime.

  22. This has been carried in the case of suffragette criminals to the utmost limits of absurdity.

  23. It is not only by men, and by a morbid public opinion inflamed by Feminist sentiment in general, that female criminals are surrounded by a halo of injured innocence.

  24. Yet were these “political” offenders dealt with otherwise than as ordinary criminals when convicted of acts qualified by the law as felonies?

  25. On the contrary, a certain willingness to admit and even to emphasise the disinterestedness of these female criminals is observable.

  26. Everywhere else honest people are at large and only criminals are in prison.

  27. In Russia the honest people are in prison and the criminals are at large.

  28. Every day as Vikram sat upon the judgment-seat, trying causes and punishing offenses, he narrowly observed the speech, the gestures, and the countenances of the various criminals and litigants and their witnesses.

  29. Sometimes criminals were crucified by their hands and feet being nailed to a scaffold; others were merely tied up, and fed.

  30. From that moment, Constantine declared himself the protector of a sect which treats great criminals with so much lenity.

  31. Criminals released from the galleys usually come forth hardened in their crimes by the lash and the oar.

  32. The criminals encouraged each other to the very last.

  33. It was thought that my lord the prior had a kindness for him, and wished him better used than they use the criminals in the Santa Casa.

  34. He set up still greater obstacles to commerce, sent many prominent men into exile, declared criminals those who received printed matter from abroad, and established an organized system of espionage.

  35. As I have already remarked, it is the custom here, as well as in many countries of Europe, to sentence criminals to hard labour on public works.

  36. I admit it, only on condition that he had first been allowed to speak in his own defence as criminals are.

  37. The pit or chasm at Athens into which the bodies of criminals were thrown; cf.

  38. It is also a fact that France offers sanctuary to all criminals who fly from justice.

  39. These men, punished for some paltry military offence, were certainly treated as if they were criminals of the worst description.

  40. For what are called criminals nowadays are not criminals at all.

  41. That indeed is the reason why our criminals are, as a class, so absolutely uninteresting from any psychological point of view.

  42. It was no longer necessary to send criminals to the Oasis; it was enough to banish them to the neighbourhood of Thebes.

  43. This man, a subject of the Elector of Wurtemberg by birth, is one of the negative accomplices of the criminals of France who, since the Revolution, have desolated Europe.

  44. Treilhard had, before the Revolution, the reputation of being an honest man and an able advocate; but has since joined the criminals of all factions, being an accomplice in their guilt and a sharer of their spoils.

  45. Wild and outlawed men, criminals and lepers and madmen, become as little children at His word, and all the wrongs and bruises inflicted on them by a cruel world are healed beneath His kindly glance.

  46. They are certainly not perceived by the criminals themselves.

  47. To his traducer, who casts up anarchism against him, he replies that the last census (1880) shows his people to have the fewest criminals of all in proportion to numbers.

  48. The younger criminals seem to come almost exclusively from the worst tenement house districts, that is, when traced back to the very places where they had their homes in the city here.

  49. Criminals and policemen alike do him homage.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criminals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.