How to Use war crime in a Sentence

war crime

noun

• He was found guilty of torture and other war crimes.
• So war crime tri charges were filed against Vidic in 1994.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 July 2023
• His forces are bogged down and accused of war crimes in Yemen.
  — Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• In the first war crime case brought to trial, Russian Sgt.
  — Oleksandr Stashevskyi and David Keyton, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022
• Gallagher in July was found not guilty of all but one of the war crimes charges against him.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
• The way the United States has treated Iran over the past three years is an abominable war crime.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 2020
• With the specter of war crimes charges now hanging over the Israel-Hamas war, so too are questions.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• This is the first time ever that the department has filed charges under the U.S. war crimes statute.
  — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• After the war, Pernkopf spent three years in an Allied prison camp but was not charged with war crimes.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 12 May 2020
• Left-wing human rights groups have argued that the removal of the village may amount to a war crime.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
• In the months that followed, knowledge of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine spread rapidly across the world.
  — Mariia Hlyten, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2024
• Committing war crimes is half the allure to some games.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Israel has been accused of committing war crimes in its three wars in the Gaza Strip in the last decade.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, Jewish Journal, 13 June 2018
• And at least one worked with Smith in The Hague, where he was tasked with charging Kosovo war crimes starting in 2018.
  — Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• President Trump just pardoned me, too, for the war crimes.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2019
• Just ten per cent said that Hamas had committed war crimes.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• Human rights advocates called the killings a war crime.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• The trial marks the first time the ICC has tried the destruction of cultural heritage as a war crime.
  — CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• Of the two dozen people against whom the ICC has pursued war crimes cases, about a third remain at large.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
• Human rights groups say the destruction of civilian homes and farms could amount to war crimes.
  — Jonathan Baran, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• It is remembered in China today as a war crime on par with the Nazi death camps.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• This is not the first time concerns about war crimes have been raised amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 11 June 2024
• Bell stressed that the torture of Ukrainian POWs constitutes a war crime.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
• Britain called the attack on a children’s hospital a war crime.
  — Vgeniy Maloletka, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Vidic in 1994 was charged with committing a war crime for Komes’ death in a Croatian court in Sisak.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 26 Jan. 2023
• The forcible transfer of children can constitute a grave war crime.
  — ABC News, 3 Feb. 2023
• The verdict is already in: Israel is guilty as charged, of every manner of war crime and abuse.
  — WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
• The Dance of the Dragons has already seen war crimes, child murder and the demise of majestic creatures once revered as gods.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
• The warrants accuse the leaders of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the more than yearlong war in Gaza.
  — Brad Dress, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
• He’s also shown support for members of the military accused of war crimes and criticized the military’s justice system.
  — Jason Dearen, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024