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• When thinking about Zohnerism, the impeachment perpetrated on our president by the Democrat-led Congress comes to mind.2020 January 17, Ed Liberatore, “Letter to the editor: Impeachment & misinterpretation of facts”, in The Tribune-Review. From the entry Zohnerism
• As elsewhere in the world, individuals need judging by actions they perpetrate.2013, Mu Octavis Taalib, How to Study the Quraan, page 23. From the entry Muslimship
• This led to the charge that Kinsey was perpetrating what we might call the statisticization of morality.2007 January 21, Scott Stossel, “Measure for Measure”, in New York Times. From the entry statisticization
• According to France's foreign minister, the British foreign secretary is guilty of perpetrating a supercherie.2005 June 23, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian. From the entry supercherie
• One commonplace theft was the snatch-and-run perpetrated around the central business area by boys or young men.1995, John C. Weaver, “The Enduring Circumstances of Violence and Theft”, in Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a…. From the entry snatch and run
• Piquerism, then, is usually perpetrated on others within some close physical proximity.1983 October 1, Ronald M. Holmes, The Sex Offender and the Criminal Justice System, Springfield: C. C. Thomas, →ISBN, →OL, page 150. From the entry piquerism
• Mature adults who seek to perpetrate this myth reveal themselves as incomplete and neurotic personalities.1947, Valentine Davies, chapter 10, in Miracle on 34th Street, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 63. From the entry Kris Kringle
• The idea of equality has already launched Communist Russia into perpetrating the tyrannies of levelisation and Bovietisation.1941, Jayendraray Bhagwanlal Durkal, Conservative India. From the entry levelisation
• A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game.1906, Harry Houdini, The Right Way to Do Wrong, page 72. From the entry gold-brick
• You had to wonder whether he was thinking about some mischief he had just perpetrated or thinking about some new mischief he could get into.2004, Jud McLester, Thru a Pilot's Eye: Cold War Through Vietnam Era, page 222. From the entry devil in one's eyes
• I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States.1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39. From the entry black
• Other Fort-influenced writers argue that Fortean phenomena are themselves the means by which a kind of paranormal conspiracy of cosmic proportions is perpetrated against human beings.2015, Simon Wilson, “Fortean phenomena”, in Matt Cardin, editor, Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy to Zombies…. From the entry fortean
• While Baron Cohen targeted a single country, the Australian comedian Santo Cilauro crafted an entirely new, but undeniably post-Second World, country to perpetrate similar acts of anti-branding.2015, Robert Saunders, “Mediating New Europe-Asia: Branding the Post-Socialist World via the Internet”, in Jeremy Morris, Natalya Rulyova…. From the entry Boratesque
• They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 615. From the entry bilk
• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press.1916, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “On Style”, in On The Art of Writing. From the entry murder one's darlings

Meaning of perpetrate

1. verb To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

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How do you use perpetrate in a sentence?

Perpetrate is used as a verb. For example: “When thinking about Zohnerism, the impeachment perpetrated on our president by the Democrat-led Congress comes to mind.”

What is a short sentence with perpetrate?

“perpetrate a murder”

What does perpetrate mean?

Perpetrate means to be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.