How to Use allege in a Sentence

allege

verb

• The mayor is alleged to have accepted bribes.
• He alleged that the mayor has accepted bribes.
• You allege that she stole a large quantity of money. Do you have any proof?
• Court records allege that on Oct. 25 of last year, Davis and then-Sgt.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
• He was alleged to have burned his trash can on the balcony.
  — Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
• There is a range of harms and heartbreak alleged in the filings.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
• The police alleged the three men may have killed the couple.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• The charges allege that the fraud started as early as 2019, or the year that FTX was founded.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2022
• The parents of the second student allege their child was feet away from the shooting.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Reports in the court records alleged that Bateman had the 9-year-old sleep in his bed four months later.
  — Miguel Torres, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• The suit alleges that Tannis broke both ankles during a 2023 visit to the house.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
• Carr, after the hearing, alleged the lawsuit was filed to hurt her ahead of her 2022 state senate race.
  — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
• The Ukrainians allege the attack may have killed hundreds.
  — Time, 5 Jan. 2023
• The lawsuit alleged Burns drove negligently, failed to yield the right of way and caused the collision.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Race, the lawsuit alleged, is why Shaw and Moss faced greater punishment.
  — Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024
• Baur and Vang had previously been charged with child neglect, but the new charges allege the boy’s death.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• The lawsuit does not allege any wrongdoing by the DIA, but only seeks to get the painting back.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2023
• The home in the Stoney Creek district of Hamilton, Ontario, where a landlord is alleged to have shot and killed two tenants.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 30 May 2023
• The group alleges Boeing led Ten Oaks down a deceptive path in a last-ditch effort to buy time and keep low prices.
  — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024
• The police sent information to the FBI that same month, but the agency did not open a case until the summer of 2006, the lawsuit alleges.
  — Nicki Brown, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• The student suffered from a brain injury, facial fractures, and the loss of vision in his left eye, the lawsuit alleges.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
• In the lawsuit, Hussey and Whiting allege that the director lied and that they were filmed nude without their knowledge.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2023
• Police are alleged to have taken part in some massacres.
  — Harold Isaac and Sarah Morland, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
• Some have alleged that this was to take advantage of the stifling heat of July to keep the picketing rabble at home.
  — Todd Robinson, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2023
• The authorities alleged that Ukraine was behind the blast.
  — Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 6 May 2023
• The officer then alleges that Morris struck him in the chest, according to the document.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• Abercrombie has been hit with a lawsuit for alleging turning a blind eye to these actions at the time.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• The lawsuit also alleges that the band had been bound to the same restrictions when performing at the festival in 2016.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024
• The new plaintiff alleges that his parents later noticed something was wrong.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
• Prosecutors alleged that Johnston not only took part in one of the day's most violent assaults on law enforcement officers in the Lower West Plaza, but also filmed the events on his cell phone.
  — EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024