How to Use perp in a Sentence

perp

noun

• There seemed to be a dozen men who fit the role of perp.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 12 Mar. 2020
• The alleged perp, a deranged man, should if guilty suffer the full force of the law.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• If the perp had worn his game socks too low, he would have been caught coming out of his car.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
• The police, too, set up an important shot of their own: the perp walk.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 May 2018
• Jen Shah, though not arrested in Palm Beach, is on hand to tell the crowd how to do a perp walk in style.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2021
• The perp walk has been happening in New York for at least a hundred years.
  — refinery29.com, 25 May 2018
• But thankfully the only injury suffered was to the pride of the wannabe perp.
  — Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2019
• The perp’s car door knocked Jim over, bouncing his head off the concrete parking lot.
  — David Frese, kansascity.com, 12 May 2017
• The director of athletic medicine had come to him with a ten-year-old perp in a crime of which Joe was the victim.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• The other pooch chased the perps away but was also hit at some point, Newton said — the weapon knocking out the dog’s teeth on its left side.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 19 June 2019
• Notably absent from his long list of perps are trial lawyers, the preferred bugaboo of the right.
  — Seth Stern, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• Deputies were on the hunt for a possible slithering perp.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• This brief moment could easily be called the perp walk of the century.
  — Mary Angela Bock, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2023
• This means French Montana will be in and around the storyline, a key figure thanks to his involvement with the perp.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Trump was spared the indignity of being handcuffed, perp walked or placed in a cell.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
• Grace’s style, on the other hand, is hyper-focused perp-hunting on behalf of the victim.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 26 Jan. 2017
• As minutes passed, tension grew, with hundreds of reporters gathered for the perp walk.
  — Richard Winton, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
• The perp ran down the street to another bar, where Kinane helped a bouncer detain him until the cops arrived.
  — Lee Keeler, SPIN, 10 May 2022
• When a perp becomes fixated on Benson, the entire squad is on edge.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
• There’s another version of Loki loose on the timeline and only the god himself can outsmart the perp.
  — Kelsea Stahler, refinery29.com, 9 June 2021
• After months of pinging from his personal phone, the perp switched his aim to the home of his bosses, who happened to be a married couple.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• The perp did not get away with much before getting spotted and chased away by security.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Oct. 2017
• The perp was caught, but Minnie’s body was never found — which is a clue that this wasn’t a typical disappearance.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• Having a clean perp, reborn as a soldier of the caliphate, makes the Amaq claim of credit safe, and unlikely to require regret later.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• After being perp-walked in front of her neighbors and on the evening news, Peoples spent years fighting the truancy charges in court, refusing to plead guilty.
  — Piper Kerman, Washington Post, 22 July 2021
• For a community on edge about persecution, the late-night perp walk was bad optics.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2020
• Police could one day comb security camera footage and identify a perp by how his voice gonged against a glass of water.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014
• News cameras clicked and rolled capturing Shkreli, in a grey hoodie but minus his usual smirk, on his perp walk that morning.
  — Jaclyn Gallucci, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2018
• The perp was hiding in a paper recycling plant in Calgary, Alberta.
  — Author: Amanda Coletta, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2019
• Solve the situation yourself by loudly repeating what the perp is saying!
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024