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Example sentences for "incriminating"

Lexicographically close words:
increment; incremental; increments; incriminate; incriminated; incrimination; incrustation; incrustations; incrusted; incrusting
  1. Creatures of this kind were sure not to be lacking, and it was even said that cunning heretics caused themselves to be accused, and accepted penance, for the purpose of incriminating Catholics, and thus rendering the whole proceeding odious.

  2. Hudson, as he turned and saw her occupation, "we been all through that, and anything incriminating has been weeded out.

  3. And he held up the incriminating lobster, triumphantly.

  4. First Geoffrey was seized and carried to the Tower, and some sort of incriminating admission drawn from him by threats of torture, though, so far as can be gathered, nothing but the repetition of disaffected conversations.

  5. Then, bit by bit, by threats of torture, some sort of confession incriminating Anne was wrung out of the poor wretch: though exactly what he confessed is not on record.

  6. In other cases incriminating evidence made needless the assumption of an attitude by culprits of screening by silence the complicity of superiors.

  7. The United States raised the point that this evidence should be obtained by search at sea, and that the vessel and cargo should not be taken to a British port for the purpose unless incriminating circumstances warranted such action.

  8. Dumba, thrown on his defense, explained to the State Department that the incriminating proposals recommended in the document did not originate from him personally, but were the fruit of orders received from Vienna.

  9. I'll tell you that when I have related my evidence incriminating him.

  10. The incriminating papers were in the right hands; their secret was known only to himself, to Graham, and to the bishop.

  11. Cargrim would have given much to have overheard this speech, but as the door and several passages were between him and the talker, he was ignorant of the incriminating remarks the bishop had let slip.

  12. The authenticity of these documents has never been denied even by the Illuminati themselves; Weishaupt, in his published defence, endeavoured only to explain away the most incriminating passages.

  13. Sir Anthony Weldon tells us[411] that on the trial of Raleigh and Cobham, the latter protested that he had never made the declaration attributed to him incriminating Raleigh.

  14. You say they got nothing incriminating on him," he remarked.

  15. No, this fellow had nothing incriminating on him.

  16. People don't take boys seriously, and will often do or say incriminating things before boys that they would not dream of doing in the presence of grown men.

  17. Carefully Charley chopped out the incriminating bits of clay.

  18. No incriminating marks were discernible on the trees.

  19. Gobert reported that Dreyfus did not write the incriminating documents.

  20. We even hear of a case at Montsegur of a child of six incriminating members of his own family and many others.

  21. On the other hand, if the paraffin had been wanted for the felonious purpose suggested, could anything be more incriminating and incredible than the suggested method of obtaining it?

  22. In his complete innocence of the crime imputed to him, he had been unable to conceive or to recall a single incriminating circumstance not susceptible of an easy and immediate explanation.

  23. In his outstretched hand he held before their faces two incriminating diamonds.

  24. Dyer has lost his incriminating papers and notes and is on his way to Washington in an endeavor to recover them.

  25. The most she had hoped to discover were incriminating papers.

  26. A good dozen or two of bicyclists stood gathered already in the body of the room in the same incriminating costume.

  27. I paused for a moment behind a thick clump of lilacs and tried to pull out the incriminating negatives.

  28. Probably the fellow judged right that the most incriminating pictures of all had by that time been removed, and that the last would only show his back, if it included him at all, or if he came into focus.

  29. Once more the door was shut; but, once more, that thread of incriminating light burnt like a red-hot wire beneath.

  30. From time to time, however, they made a little talk to save appearances which were incriminating only in their own minds; and all the time their eyes rested together upon the black stack of logs and corrugated iron which was the store.

  31. What incriminating knowledge could this boy possess, to render old Shaynon, willing that his memory should be expurgated by such a mind- and nerve-shattering agent as the knock-out drop of White Light commerce?

  32. All his papers and correspondence in the hands of his friends were seized and his brother, a Dominican fraile, whom the king had placed in the Suprema, was arrested in the hope of obtaining incriminating evidence.

  33. Immediately Loder's ovation had subsided, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs rose and in a careful and non-incriminating reply defended the attitude of the Government.

  34. Was poor old Anna going to reveal something of a very serious self-incriminating kind?

  35. Anything incriminating she may say to you will not be brought as evidence against her.

  36. You see that's how it's done, examining the incriminating stains on the soles of the shoes.

  37. Now, then, stand still while Doc Watson goes through your pockets for the gems, or at least for some incriminating evidence.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incriminating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.