CONVICT in a Sentence

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For CONVICT, below is one of 252 sentences:
He is accused of an armed attempt to overturn the constitutional order; if he is convicted he could face life imprisonment.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVICT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
convict
 v.  find or declare guilty
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I am a convict from the galleys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2  Monsieur to a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the Medusa.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
3  To all appearances, it was an occasion for preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
4  Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and meditated.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
5  An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
6  At times, amid his convict toil, he paused.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
7  Like an owl, who should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and blinded, as it were, by virtue.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
8  Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, worthy of some Goliath of a convict.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
9  During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the South.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
10  He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
11  To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
12  It is about a sort of blackguard; a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
13  He obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
14  The usher, accompanied by a gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict Brevet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
15  He was another convict for life, who had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  He is accused of an armed attempt to overturn the constitutional order; if he is convicted he could face life imprisonment.
17  Amid growing discontent in South Africa at the verdict, the Steenkamps criticised judge Thokozile Masipa for being too lenient on the athlete, who was instead convicted of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter, and granted bail.
18  She appealed unsuccessfully against her conviction for murder.
19  His argument does not carry much conviction.
20  The district attorney said if McVeigh is given the death penalty and his conviction is upheld on appeal, the state prosecution would become moot.
21  The spectacle of Xerxes's defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall.
22  The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
23  Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
24  The students possess the conviction that they can make a difference to their community.
25  The High Court later quashed his conviction for murder.
26  A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.
27  Fashion and change Two features of the present cultural climate make this element of conviction all the more necessary.
28  It is our firm conviction that a step forward has been taken.
29  The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
30  Carpenter is free on bail while he appeals his conviction.