"crime" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Don't you believe for a second that we bring in innocent people and charge them with some imaginary crimes.
- People were charged overnight with imaginary crimes and convicted through a so-called court trial.
- They knew that terror or malice might inspire accused people to invent imaginary crimes and conceal real ones.
- Their teeth and beards were pulled out, they were burned, and finally tempted with gold, to persuade them to confess an imaginary crime.
- It seems that they had been denunciated for imaginary crimes.
- Found guilty of this imaginary crime, she was condemned to death by beheading.
- In other words, you're reading an imaginary crime between the lines of an account that's already imaginary in itself.
- On August 21 (1650) fifteen women and one man were executed for the imaginary crime of witchcraft.
- Wants to be punished, wants to expiate some real or imaginary crime.
- I am innocent, and yet your clever, suspicious eyes have been punishing me for an imaginary crime ever since my marriage.
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