How to Use perpetrate in a Sentence

perpetrate

verb
Definition of perpetratenext
Synonyms for perpetratenext
  • The men were planning to perpetrate a robbery.
  • The attack was perpetrated by a street gang.
  • He vowed revenge for the crime perpetrated on his family.
  • The worst was the evil man who perpetrated a hate crime...
    — Donna McGuire, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • That and the people that were perpetrating the con were the two things that were most interesting to me.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • Yes, there had been a fraud, but it had been perpetrated by Warren and Le alone.
    — Francesca Mari, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2020
  • While parental consent laws may be viewed by some as a safeguard, they can be used to perpetrate abuse.
    — Ashley Belanger, Teen Vogue, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Jones’ claims were that the dead children and their families were actors hired to perpetrate the hoax.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Both are charged with theft and using criminal tools to perpetrate the crime.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The data stolen in hacks is used by scammers to perpetrate their hoaxes.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Pastor Wright asked God to be with the victims of violence and those who perpetrate it.
    — Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • In six cases, one or more of the authors perpetrated the fraud themselves.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 31 July 2017
  • But police now say the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by Dani’s owner.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Guess who is perpetrating all of these kinds of actions?
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2018
  • The only perpetrator in the area that has a motive to perpetrate them is Iran.
    — Author: John Wagner, Paul Sonne, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2019
  • Trump has said climate change might be a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 May 2017
  • If Durov can be held liable for crimes on the app, so too can the criminals perpetrating them, the logic goes.
    — Josh Axelrod, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
  • No one asked why Tom White perpetrated the crimes, or asked his sister any questions about his past.
    — Julia Bricklin, Smithsonian, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Richardson pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud involving the scam, which was perpetrated on the Chiefs player for an event at the start of the 2016 school year.
    — Mark Davis, kansascity, 10 July 2018
  • It is still used to perpetrate state violence and clamp down on dissent.
    — Westen K Shilaho, Quartz Africa, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Those are just two of countless examples of abuse perpetrated on the site.
    — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The abuse perpetrated by members of com groups is extreme.
    — Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The bad clans perpetrate more arson, more murders, as our heroes flee.
    — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
  • And then there are the rape myths, gender myths, and stereotypes used to perpetrate violence and to stop people from getting help.
    — Seema Yasmin, SELF, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Since the onset of Greece’s debt crisis, the group has perpetrated more than 300 attacks on migrants.
    — Seyla Benhabib, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Dan tracked her down and explained the cruel and heinous crime Smith was attempting to perpetrate on one of Nebraska's claims to fame.
    — Elizabeth Weil, Saveur, 6 Sep. 2016
  • Raines was felled, in large part, by the plagiarism and fraud perpetrated by a troubled young reporter, Jayson Blair.
    — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Her book, which took her 20 years to write, recounts the seven years of rape perpetrated on her by her stepfather.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • What followed was one of the largest manhunts in American history, where the two brothers who perpetrated the attack tried to evade police.
    — Keith Langston, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • These evils are sensational and appalling, and there’s an impulse to perceive them as existing outside of our realities, perpetrated by people who aren’t like us.
    — Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025

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