How to Use victim in a Sentence

victim

noun

• He was the victim of an error.
• The victim tried to drive away but was shot in the process.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 12 July 2023
• The male victim was close to a small shed and the dog kennel on the left.
  — CBS News, 4 Mar. 2023
• The suspects hit the victims in the face and body, police said.
  — Matt Foster, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2024
• The young boy was the first victim of ransom in the United States.
  — Fox News, 27 July 2024
• In that case, too, the victims paid the hackers' ransom.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• Court records show that the victim was shot in the head but survived the attack.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
• On Friday, the names of the 18 victims who lost their lives were released.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
• One of the victims who died lived in an apartment on the same block on which the body was found Wednesday.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
• Kevin Bohlin signed the names of the four victims from the area’s Deaf community who were killed.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• At least one of the employees in the break room at the time of the shooting was a victim in the battery case, Gray said.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• And, my thoughts go out to anyone who, like me, has ever been the victim of any kind of abuse.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
• The older victim was the mother of the baby and was pregnant.
  — Chron, 19 Feb. 2023
• One man who was involved in the argument came back, stabbed the victim in the arm, then fled.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• His victims — nine who died and one who was injured — were all Black.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• The researcher and theft victim next turned to crime forums on the dark web and YouTube videos discussing how to steal cars.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
• The attack did not break the skin of the victim; Game and Fish did not say if the victim was treated for rabies.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
• The victim was rushed to the Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 June 2024
• According to the courts, police, and those closest to Franke, the kids are victims.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2023
• The victim who died in the shooting has not yet been identified.
  — Stephanie Guerilus, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2022
• Boyle compared Jenkins to a fraud victim who still believes in the scam.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The two men got out of the car, at which point Sanchez shot the victim, according to the prosecutor.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
• The last of the victims’ bodies was recovered last week.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• Like a lot of journalists over the past two decades, Ketchum was a victim of staff cutbacks.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• All five victims were in their 60s and the three survivors were being treated for burns.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• Police said at the time that the victim appeared to have been targeted.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2023
• Police say the man killed by the officers was one of the people who struck these victims.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2024
• For crime victims, or for people in there fighting, [true crime] is not a genre.
  — Sean Malcolm, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
• The trap of social expectations has captured its latest victim in Dwyane Wade.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
• Authorities have not publicly identified the victim, who is being referred to as a John Doe.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024