How to Use forgery in a Sentence

forgery

noun
  • Velazquez also was charged with first-degree forgery charge.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Their charges include fraud, money laundering and forgery.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The couple were charged with five counts of abuse of a corpse, five counts of theft, four counts of money laundering and over 50 counts of forgery.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The potential charges include forgery, election fraud and identity theft, said Frank.
    Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The student was charged with one count of attempting to vote as an unauthorized elector and one count of forgery in order to register to vote.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In September, Murrah pleaded to one count of perjury and 14 counts of forgery.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Digital files will have to be protected against forgery and impersonation to be meaningful to third parties, such as airlines.
    NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Digital immunity passports would help combat the forgery of medical records.
    Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Two months later he was charged with one count of forgery, also a Class C felony, and two counts of theft, Class D felonies, in a related case.
    Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2024
  • On the other hand, if the discriminator classifies an image as a forgery, that's treated as a failure for the generator.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Ashley Parsley and Jackie Parsley were convicted of forgery, theft and money laundering.
    Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The forgery charges could result in penalties of up to 10 years in prison.
    Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • In 1968, Sill was sent to jail on narcotics and forgery charges.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Frank Abagnale, for his part, didn’t have to turn to forgery.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Fraud and forgery charges can be punished with jail sentences of up to five years.
    NBC News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Kaul has filed the felony forgery charges in Dane County Circuit Court.
    Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2024
  • In some cases, such a change does not count as forgery or breach of contract.
    Yec, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The man, 21, was identified and found to have an active warrant in the city for forgery.
    cleveland, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Wrapped in on the indictment was the case of an Akron man, 60, charged with one count each of forgery and passing bad checks.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 29 July 2022
  • She is charged with felony forgery and felony theft by receiving.
    Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Some doubters even suggested that the statue was a forgery.
    New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • She was wanted on a warrant for forgery out of Mayfield Heights.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The law director said thieves caught stealing mail will be charged with theft and forgery.
    John Benson, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Due to their high prices, Banksy pieces have been subject to imitation and forgery in the past.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Day one was black, two red, three green, four yellow, five blue, and each was stamped to prevent forgery.
    Catherine Ostler, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
  • This has given rise to a class of attack known as a CSRF, short for cross-script request forgery.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Ten years before, while the rivals were still in their teens, Merton Ames had been charged with forgery.
    Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Overall, Shipman was charged with 15 counts of murder and one count of forgery — though there could be many more.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • In 2007, he was convicted of forgery in New Hampshire and was sentenced to one year.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The hacker registered the forgery with the blockchain as though Beeple himself had minted it.
    New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021

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