How to Use implicate in a Sentence

implicate

verb

• His business partner was implicated in the theft.
• Soros wasn’t the first in line to implicate Xi as the source of China’s problems.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• Berhan is the first of those implicated to be sentenced to prison.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
• Trump has sought to implicate Biden and his son Hunter in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• DeSnake, by contrast, makes the very bold claim that his work PC could not implicate him even if seized.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 23 Sep. 2021
• Your publisher's lawyer will read it and make sure there's nothing in the book that could implicate you to the point where you get sued.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 July 2024
• Trump was not charged, though Cohen, who pleaded guilty and went to prison, implicated Trump in the scheme.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Neither the plane logs nor the address book in of themselves implicate anyone in a crime.
  — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
• Trump was not charged in that case, but Cohen — who pleaded guilty and spent three years in prison — implicated him in the scheme.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Things took a turn for the worse when Fez's friend Custer wore a wire in hopes of getting one of the brothers to implicate themselves in a murder.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 7 June 2022
• Fulmer retired around the same time, but was not implicated in any of the rule-breaking.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• This phone was later connected to some of the hacks in which he was implicated.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• Weidman said Hildebrant went so far as to fake an email in his name to implicate him.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
• This is the strain that has been implicated in the McDonald’s outbreak.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
• Text messages from Melissa’s phone on the day of the shooting further implicate the siblings.
  — Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• His son, Daniel Lins, implicated in the scheme, was sentenced to six months suspended and required to pay a fine of £1,000.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
• Soon after, he was linked to a double murder and implicated in a few more.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
• Fish instead has upped the ante to implicate Curly more directly.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• But the fact is, climate change is implicated at least to some extent in all of these disasters.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 July 2023
• The type of bacteria that has been implicated in this outbreak is E. coli O157:H7.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
• The hacker is implicated in a number of breaches, with many of them targeting the FBI.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
• Racial authority in the world that killed George Floyd does not implicate the legacies of the plantation.
  — James Brewer Stewart, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• The lack of heavy two-factor usage was implicated in a wave of Ring camera hacks that began late last year.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
• That stealthiness has been implicated in the virus’s speedy spread.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 25 Mar. 2020
• Once again, the loss of estrogen with menopause is implicated.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Well, 18 June 2024
• The inquiries into the younger Biden are said not to implicate his father, but questions have been raised about how much the president knew.
  — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 1 Feb. 2021
• Weeks after the fire, two local men approached her and pressured her to implicate Forbes and two other men in the arson.
  — Anna Sturla, CNN, 16 Dec. 2020
• Gough insists Bryan's actions don't implicate him in any way.
  — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2020
• George refuses to negotiate, until Dreyer reminds him that treason is a capital offense — and his only living child, Alex, is implicated.
  — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
• In this harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece, Rivera Garza ultimately goes one step further, unsettlingly implicating readers themselves.
  — Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Mar 2025