GUILTY in a Sentence

Learn GUILTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

181 example sentences for GUILTY, such as:

1. We will enter a plea of not guilty.
2. The Supreme Court judged him guilty.
3. A guilty conscience feels continual fear.
4. This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind.
5. The jury found him guilty by a majority verdict.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUILTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
guilty
 a.  responsible for breaking a law
 a.  deserving of blame
Classic Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1  If she is, God forbid that she should suffer as guilty.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  My cousin," replied I, "it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
6  Wilson was so sick that he looked guilty, unforgivably guilty--as if he had just got some poor girl with child.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  This purpose once effected, new interests would immediately spring up, and likewise a new purpose; dark, it is true, if not guilty, but of force enough to engage the full strength of his faculties.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
8  The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
9  He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
10  The venerable Father Wilson continued to step slowly onward, looking carefully at the muddy pathway before his feet, and never once turning his head towards the guilty platform.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
11  I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
12  She left to my care her only child, a little girl, the offspring of her first guilty connection, who was then about three years old.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
13  Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
14  This was very disagreeable to a guilty mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
15  It was impossible to try him for that, and do otherwise than find him guilty.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVI
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  The tobacco companies may be guilty of contempt of court for refusing to produce the documents.
17  The Supreme Court judged him guilty.
18  If a crime occurs then there is, ipso facto, a guilty party.
19  We will enter a plea of not guilty.
20  It's often difficult to establish who the guilty party is following a road accident.
21  The preponderance of evidence suggests that he's guilty.
22  A guilty conscience feels continual fear.
23  In former times a murderer who was found guilty would be condemned to death.
24  She knew that the next day she would be guilty and full of remorse.
25  It was generally believed at the time that both men were guilty.
26  The study excluded cases in which defendants pleaded guilty or no contest, and it did not involve new interviews with defendants.
27  The jury found him guilty by a majority verdict.
28  He still feels quite guilty when he look back on the past.
29  The doctor was found guilty of professional misconduct.
30  There wasn't enough evidence to prove him guilty.