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?
• Critics allege Patel has put his loyalty to Trump above the duties of the government agencies he’s served in.
  — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
• The blue dust settled onto windowsills and on a Little League field and atop fresh snow, lawsuits allege and residents recall.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2022
• Federal prosecutors at the time alleged that the money that Bannon and others raised were covertly routed to them rather than being used for the wall.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
• The new conspiracy allegations allege for the first time that a direct vote the speaker made on legislation was tainted by a scheme to influence him.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
• Brown herself divorced him in the early 1970s and would later allege physical and mental cruelty that nearly drove her to suicide.
  — Hillel Italie, Chron, 29 Oct. 2022
• At the center of the plot, the indictments allege, was a Minnesota nonprofit called Feeding Our Future.
  — Steve Karnowski, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Perhaps most egregious, the ACLU alleges, is that police did nothing to stop this.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
• The complaint alleges that Combs wanted to meet the boy in his hotel room and the child was dropped off by a consultant his parents had hired.
  — Nicole Acosta, People.com, 29 Oct. 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024