PERPETRATE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for PERPETRATE, such as:

1. Only an insane person could perpetrate such a horrible crime.
2. His life was devoted to planning and perpetrating the grossest deceptions.
3. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
4. In each case the crime was deliberately planned and perpetrated by several Negroes.
5. Federal soldiers have been accused of perpetrating atrocities against innocent people.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERPETRATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perpetrate
 v.  be responsible for; commit; do execute or perform, generally in bad sense
Classic Sentence:
1  I had been the author of unalterable evils, and I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  Jurgis heard of these things little by little, in the gossip of those who were obliged to perpetrate them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  They kept the negroes stirred up with tales of cruelty perpetrated by the whites and, in a section long famed for the affectionate relations between slaves and slave owners, hate and suspicion began to grow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  In each case the crime was deliberately planned and perpetrated by several Negroes.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
5  He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
6  In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
7  On the first of these occasions, she perpetrated the attempt to burn me in my bed; on the second, she paid that ghastly visit to you.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  Many other horrible and atrocious cruelties likewise perpetrated in Greece, show it to be true that a lost freedom is avenged with more ferocity than a threatened freedom is defended.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
9  His life was devoted to planning and perpetrating the grossest deceptions.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  The German name of the victim, the absence of all other motive, and the sinister inscription on the wall, all pointed to its perpetration by political refugees and revolutionists.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
11  This murder had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately, and the perpetrator had left his tracks all over the room, showing that he had been there all the time.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  I looked with interest upon this man, who was accused of being the perpetrator of a crime of violence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Example Sentence:
1  ...whose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and (as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished to perpetrate.
2  Only an insane person could perpetrate such a horrible crime.
3  A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
4  Federal soldiers have been accused of perpetrating atrocities against innocent people.