PERJURY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for PERJURY, such as:

1. Two key witnesses at her trial committed perjury.
2. Also the chimney on fire, the parish engine, and perjury on the part of the Beadle.
3. It may not be perjury, but selling stock to private investors with a prospectus like that is fraud.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERJURY
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perjury
 n.  false testimony while under oath; breach of an oath or promise
Classic Sentence:
1  Also the chimney on fire, the parish engine, and perjury on the part of the Beadle.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
Example Sentence:
1  It may not be perjury, but selling stock to private investors with a prospectus like that is fraud.
2  "That kind of perjury is one of the hardest cases for a prosecutor to prove," Coleman said.
3  Two key witnesses at her trial committed perjury.