How to Use rapist in a Sentence

rapist

noun
  • The thought of a rapist on the loose has many students concerned.
    — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Y’all accused me of being a f---ing rapist.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The story sees an ancient witch take revenge on a gang of rapists.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The victim described the rapist as a man of medium build with brown hair.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The woman thought the evidence from her rape kit might be used against her rapist.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
  • And think of Flock, who once imagined burning down her rapist’s store.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But Bix manages to grab a hammer and gets a hard shot to the rapist’s dome.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Sometimes, if the jurors can’t figure out who’s telling the truth, a rapist goes free.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Lawyers on both sides called Monk a rapist during the proceedings.
    — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2023
  • There is no truth to be found in the mind of a rapist; there’s no logic there to be parsed or decoded.
    — Amanda Nguyen, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Cops canvassing the area learned the rapist used a local train station.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
  • That means countless victims may never know their rapists were accused more than once.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Although a rapist wouldn’t be able to file a lawsuit, their relatives could.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2022
  • While a rapist wouldn't be allowed to sue, their family members could.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Ugly men are rapists, and attractive ones ask nicely.
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The Israeli government dropped charges against the rapists.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • Or Amy Schumer can share a meme implying that all Gazans are rapists?
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Court records show the male student admitted in text messages to being a rapist.
    — Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Given the fact that more than 20 of her rapists are still roaming free, this fame may be double-edged.
    — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
  • When all was said and done, many pirates were criminals, terrorists and rapists.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • Strauss said that lawyers are the easiest to cast, then victims, then murderers, then rapists.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Democrats are not clamoring to have gang members, rapists, and murderers turned loose.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 21 May 2025
  • It’s mentioned later that the perpetrator was a rapist.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 12 Feb. 2026
  • These are some of the worst child molesters, rapists, murderers that have been in and out of your community for a long time.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Taryn Cornick has a sister who, while out for a jog, is run down by a would-be rapist and bundled into his trunk to die.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The rapist was walking down the stairs from the third floor of the building near Thompson and Prince Sts.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The following year, police caught a rapist in the act and sampled his DNA.
    — cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
  • As governor, Mace said child rapists would get the death penalty, eliciting a loud applause from the crowd.
    — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2025

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