How to Use convict in a Sentence

convict

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• The jury convicted them on three counts of fraud.
• Have you ever been convicted of a crime?
• He was convicted in federal court.
• There is sufficient evidence to convict.
• The Democrats had 50 Senate votes, and 67 are needed to convict.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hunter faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
• If convicted of all charges, Innes could face 25 years to life in prison.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• He was convicted and spent time in and out of jail until he was paroled in 2021.
  — Yoolim Lee, Fortune Asia, 5 Feb. 2024
• If convicted, Williams could face as much as 30 years in prison.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2023
• If he had been convicted of that charge, he could have been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
  — CBS News, 9 Mar. 2024
• In the early 1980s, he was convicted of armed robbery and fraud and spent nine years in a penal colony.
  — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• Santos could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• If convicted, Perkins could face up to life in prison, and Aughenbaugh could face up to 45 years in prison.
  — Kaitlyn Hart, Idaho Statesman, 16 Feb. 2024
• Nguyen, who remains in jail in lieu of $5.25-million bail, faces life in prison if convicted as charged.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• If convicted of the tax charges, Hunter Biden, 53, could receive a maximum of 17 years in prison.
  — Stefanie Dazio, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• If convicted, Paxton could face two to 10 years in prison for the third-degree felony and five to 99 years for each of the first-degree felonies, as well as fines.
  — From Staff Reports, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
• If convicted of his third count, of harassment in the second degree, Crowe faces up to a year in prison.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2024
• Both charges are Class A misdemeanors, carrying up to a year in jail and up to a $6,000 fine if convicted.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 11 Oct. 2023
• Biden will never be convicted, as that requires a two-thirds vote.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• What was Cindy White's sentence when she was convicted?
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• Nauman Hussain was convicted this May and is serving five to 15 years in prison.
  — Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
• They were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
  — Jay Croft, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
• If convicted as charged, Dion could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in state prison.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• After more than a decade, a Tucson man has been convicted of her murder.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
• He was convicted of the killings in two separate trials.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• Key Background Creech has been convicted of killing five people across three states.
  — James Farrell, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Smith was convicted in 2000 for murder in the shooting death of his live-in girlfriend, LaKendra Kirkland, in Dothan.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• But twice since 2020 he has been convicted of possessing drugs with intent to sell.
  — Albert Samaha, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
• He was convicted and sentenced for those rapes early last year.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024

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convict

2 of 2 noun

• The judge and the former convict shared a hug, both in tears.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 31 May 2021
• Think of how so many of us have been named convict and number.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Russia's enrollment of convicts to the front lines harks back to the Bashi-bazouks of the Ottoman armies.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• At the time, the convict was seeking a reduction of his 30-year sentence.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
• But there’s a wrinkle: The convict, Abdullah al-Huwaiti, was only 14 at the time of the robbery and killing.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• In a separate video, Mr. Prigozhin, himself a former convict, speaks with the four of them.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
• At the time of the murders, the homeless convict was a violent offender just out of prison.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2021
• The gunman, at least in the public record, seemed to be a reformed, middle-aged ex-convict who had put the crimes of his youth behind him.
  — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2022
• How can the jury convict on multiple charges for one death?
  — Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
• At the time of the murders, Spencer, a homeless convict, was a violent offender just out of prison.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2021
• On the hit series, Bingham plays Walker, a former convict turned ranch hand.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
• After a park employee told the couple that the park was closing, the convict cursed, shouted, threw her food at her fiancé, and left the park.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2023
• Jones took home the best actor award for his turn in the film, which ends in the seconds before Bryant begins his shooting spree at the former convict colony.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 20 July 2021
• But experts say a first-time convict usually sees far less time.
  — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2021
• The house itself was built entirely by convict labour and took nearly three years to complete.
  — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• Duong escaped again with the cabbie, retracing his steps south to O.C. when the other convicts stepped out to run an errand.
  — Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• As for what the ex-convict will do next, Sorokin has been channeling her newfound fame into making a comeback in the art world.
  — Katie Reul, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• An ex-convict and his estranged daughter go on the run from her drug-dealing boyfriend and his vicious cartel.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2021
• What followed over the next several months was a bizarre journey that took some of the convicts more than 4,000 miles through five prisons and five countries.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• Police say that the murder was a hit ordered on behalf of the gang by a 47-year-old murder convict serving a life sentence.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2021
• It was used to fuel the convict lease system, which kept the wheels of industry and agriculture humming.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 6 Dec. 2022
• Ziskin is an ex-convict who spent more than a decade behind bars after he was caught smuggling the drug ecstasy into the US in 2000.
  — Scott McLean, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
• The movie from Russia is a black comedy about an ex-convict trying to reclaim her daughter by force.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
• Many of them grew up below the poverty line, are minorities, or former convicts.
  — Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• Every convict has the right (by law) to invite a specialist to examine and consult him.
  — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 18 Apr. 2021
• The Internet may make such comments about a convict’s appearance feel very low-stakes.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• The city is one step closer to purchasing the land that was once home to a brick company that used brutal convict labor practices.
  — Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022
• The movie stars Jennifer Tilly as a mafioso’s girlfriend, and Gina Gershon as the ex-convict hired to do renovations on their apartment.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 7 June 2022
• For one, the soldiers-for-hire include a large share of convicts fighting in exchange for commuted sentences.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2023
• Meanwhile, a convict named Corey (Alain Delon), who’s being released from prison at the end of a five-year term, is tipped off by a guard to a Parisian jewelry palace that’s ripe for a heist.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024