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Example sentences for "accessory after the fact"

  • Have you ever heard of such a thing as an accessory after the fact?

  • As evidence of your being an accessory after the fact.

  • Because that is the position in which you stand--in the position of an accessory after the fact.

  • He fled with her, and I fancy he must be either the assassin or an accessory after the fact.

  • He is innocent of actually committing this crime, but he certainly is an accessory after the fact.

  • She must, therefore, have known about the murder, and that makes her an accessory after the fact.

  • If he went to the police and had Miss Greeby arrested, the truth of Garvington's shady dealings would certainly come to light, especially as Silver was an accessory after the fact.

  • Silver was in the worst plight, since he was well aware that the law would consider him to be an accessory after the fact, and that, although his neck was not in danger, his liberty assuredly was.

  • You are the person who is in danger, as you knew Miss Greeby to be guilty, and are therefore an accessory after the fact.

  • But it might be--and it appeared to be more than probable--that she was an accessory after the fact.

  • She makes herself out plainly as an accessory after the fact.

  • No, dear, I do not think he will be hanged; but as an accessory after the fact he will certainly be condemned to a long term of imprisonment.

  • Yes, and Mrs. Jasher an accessory after the fact.

  • Oh, the awful torture of having a gay mother shopping the solemn hours away, when each instant drew her son nearer to the doom of an accessory after the fact!

  • Here the final question arose and shook its ghostly finger at me: 'Can a sane man be an accessory after the fact in a murder committed by an insane woman?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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