How to Use perpetrate in a Sentence

perpetrate

verb

• The men were planning to perpetrate a robbery.
• The attack was perpetrated by a street gang.
• He vowed revenge for the crime perpetrated on his family.
• That and the people that were perpetrating the con were the two things that were most interesting to me.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 May 2024
• Yes, there had been a fraud, but it had been perpetrated by Warren and Le alone.
  — Francesca Mari, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2020
• Jones’ claims were that the dead children and their families were actors hired to perpetrate the hoax.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2022
• Both are charged with theft and using criminal tools to perpetrate the crime.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
• The data stolen in hacks is used by scammers to perpetrate their hoaxes.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2020
• Pastor Wright asked God to be with the victims of violence and those who perpetrate it.
  — Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• But police now say the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by Dani’s owner.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Guess who is perpetrating all of these kinds of actions?
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2018
• The only perpetrator in the area that has a motive to perpetrate them is Iran.
  — Author: John Wagner, Paul Sonne, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2019
• If Durov can be held liable for crimes on the app, so too can the criminals perpetrating them, the logic goes.
  — Josh Axelrod, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
• No one asked why Tom White perpetrated the crimes, or asked his sister any questions about his past.
  — Julia Bricklin, Smithsonian, 24 Sep. 2019
• Richardson pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud involving the scam, which was perpetrated on the Chiefs player for an event at the start of the 2016 school year.
  — Mark Davis, kansascity, 10 July 2018
• It is still used to perpetrate state violence and clamp down on dissent.
  — Westen K Shilaho, Quartz Africa, 7 Dec. 2020
• Those are just two of countless examples of abuse perpetrated on the site.
  — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2018
• The abuse perpetrated by members of com groups is extreme.
  — Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
• The bad clans perpetrate more arson, more murders, as our heroes flee.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• And then there are the rape myths, gender myths, and stereotypes used to perpetrate violence and to stop people from getting help.
  — Seema Yasmin, SELF, 22 Dec. 2017
• Raines was felled, in large part, by the plagiarism and fraud perpetrated by a troubled young reporter, Jayson Blair.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Her book, which took her 20 years to write, recounts the seven years of rape perpetrated on her by her stepfather.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Thousands were killed in the raid, which is known as the Benin Massacre in Nigeria and is remembered as one of the bloodiest episodes perpetrated by the British.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• What is more difficult to grasp is what kind of person can perpetrate such misery.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• The campaign, which is still in progress, was perpetrated by a pre-Kremlin group known as Doppelganger.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• There are a lot of people that use alcohol as a way to perpetrate violence.
  — Jennifer Maloney, WSJ, 15 May 2021
• Some of the robberies in that pattern have been perpetrated through brute force outside or near clubs for jewelry and cash.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• There was also a hoax perpetrated by an overzealous cruise captain in 2013 and another one that sprang up from the deep just three years ago.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
• The report found the vast majority of killings were perpetrated by a partner or close relative.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024
• Writer-director Benjamin Christensen — who acts in the film as both the Devil and Jesus — frames witch hunts as a mass social injustice borne out of ignorance, perpetrated in particular against the mentally ill.
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024