offender

Example Sentences

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TikToker, Finian Hackett, who posts about film and theatre, feels "the worst offender is phones".

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

But police officials said one helpful tool has been a law allowing investigators to aggregate the thefts of a repeat offender at the same store.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Those files exposed a friendship between the convicted sex offender and Peter Mandelson, a Labour Party grandee and Mr. Starmer’s choice for ambassador to Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

A 25-year-old man who had been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released with no further action.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

A trial date would be set in the near future but, as a juvenile and first-time offender, I was likely to receive only probation.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides