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How to use accomplice in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Accomplice means an associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. Example: “The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.”

Examples of accomplice by meaning

nounAn associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

  • You must have had accomplices, but you will not name them.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Guilty”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 259–260

More sentences with accomplice

  • The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.From the entry break
  • Because the accomplice wasn't considered a danger, she was sent to a minimum-security prison.From the entry minimum-security
  • The painter was named as an accomplice.From the entry name
  • The main suspect refused to answer any questions, but the police got chapter and verse from his accomplice.From the entry chapter and verse
  • Youssef, would keep a cut, spreading the bulk around to politicians and accomplices.2015 August 7, David Segal, “Petrobras Oil Scandal Leaves Brazilians Lamenting a Lost Dream”, in New York Times. From the entry doleiro
  • The inmates and two accomplices executed the breakout with militarylike precision, witnesses said.2009 August 9, Nicola Clark, “In Some Prison Breaks Across Europe, Helicopters Replace the File in the Cake”, in New York Times. From the entry militarylike
  • His accomplice rushed in behind Angelo, jerked his head back and slashed his neck.2002, Betty Bradford Byers, The Big Payback, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry Colombian necktie
  • True to his equally controversial reputation, Johnson’s hacker accomplice, Auernheimer, said he mostly did it for the lulz.2015 October 23, Michael E. Miller, “Controversial blogger, infamous hacker team up to release remaining Planned Parenthood videos”, in…. From the entry for the lulz
  • Shahzad was not Mirandised until after the initial interrogation dispelled concerns that there might be accomplices planning further car bombing attacks.2012, Peter Robson, Jessica Silbey, Law and Justice on the Small Screen, →ISBN. From the entry Mirandise
  • Oxygen is an accomplice, not a foe, in the production of vin jaune, which is made of the savagnin grape, a Jura staple.2009 September 23, Eric Asimov, “From Jura, Geeky but Versatile Wines”, in New York Times. From the entry savagnin
  • His innamorata is busy with an accomplice planning a jewel robbery that will involve him, since they will plant the stolen goods on him.1998, Marcia Landy, “Comedy, Melodrama, and Theatricality”, in The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930–1943…. From the entry innamorata
  • But when is one an accomplice?1963, Richard H. Kuh, “A Prosecutor Considers the Model Penal Code”, in Columbia Law Review, 63.4, p. 616. From the entry aborter
  • Bauerstein might have had an accomplice.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 129. From the entry perplexedly
  • He would be caught in flagrante delicto, and, with a heavy sentence hovering over him, he would probably be induced to name his accomplice.1908, Baroness Orczy, chapter V, in The Old Man in the Corner. From the entry in flagrante delicto

Meaning of accomplice

  1. noun An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
  2. noun A cooperator.

Full definition of accomplice

Questions about accomplice in a sentence

How do you use accomplice in a sentence?
Accomplice is used as a noun. For example: “The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.”
What is a short sentence with accomplice?
“Bauerstein might have had an accomplice.”
What does accomplice mean?
Accomplice means an associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

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