How to Use career criminal in a Sentence

career criminal

noun

• He was identified as Thomas Martin Elliot, a career criminal who spent much of his life in and out of prison.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Kimber’s killer, who was a career criminal and would have still been behind bars under three-strikes, died in a shootout with police.
  — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• Prosecutors said Washington was a career criminal who had been in and out of prison for much of his adult life.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
• The heist seemed like a mystery that would never be solved—until a deathbed confession by a career criminal led to the recovery of almost all of the missing timepieces.
  — Fern Reiss, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
• Outrage over Polly’s murder by a career criminal helped drive California to adopt a series of tough-on-crime laws.
  — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• Throughout Highsmith’s novels, Ripley plays a career criminal who is nearly caught or killed but manages to escape all perils.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• Read full article Messer sentenced Montgomery to serve between 15 and 30 years on each of two armed career criminal counts, with the prison terms to be completed consecutively.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Gable’s lawyers have urged the government to vacate the nearly nine-year federal sentence issued after Gable was convicted in 1991 of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced as a career criminal.
  — oregonlive, 1 May 2023
• The career criminal died of natural causes in November 2017.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Set during Chile’s economic crisis of the early 1980s under brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, the film follows Patricio, a career criminal constantly surrounded by drugs, alcohol, women and scams.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 May 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024