How to Use ex-con in a Sentence
ex-con
noun-
Affleck, who co-wrote the script with Chuck MacLean, stars as an ex-con who teams up with Damon to rob a corrupt politician.
— Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 30 July 2024 -
An ex-con, Jyn more than proved her worth as a hero stealing the plans to the Death Star.
— Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023 -
Okello, whose real name is Kel, is an ex-con who works for a dowry scam.
— Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023 -
Inez’s old flame, an ex-con named Lucky (William Catlett), re-enters the picture and moves in with them.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023 -
The ex-con FaceTimes the group on the ride over, which only fuels the anticipation.
— Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023 -
Despair makes Danny turn for help to his charismatic ex-con cousin Isaac (David Choe).
— Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2023 -
Ever since, Mitch’s ex-con younger brother Mike (Jeremy Renner) has struggled to keep the peace.
— Noel Murray, Vulture, 2 June 2024 -
One is an ex-con Wood met while working construction jobs in South Carolina.
— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024 -
Hunter told the story of Harry Powell, a murderous ex-con who takes up the identity of a preacher in order to do his misdeeds.
— Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2024 -
Detectives believe Irish killed Williams during a drug dispute, but the ex-con has denied any involvement in her death.
— Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024 -
In the book, Simon also has a long backstory of being an ex-con and recovering addict.
— Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024 -
Someone from an upper-middle-class background with a culinary school degree from a top program might work alongside an ex-con on a path to sobriety.
— Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 June 2024 -
Ray was an ex-con who moved into his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence college in 2010 and gained manipulative control over her roommates’ lives.
— Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 June 2024 -
The Republican operative and ex-con (Trump pardoned him in 2020) would be divulging Richard Nixon’s secret recipe.
— Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023 -
Set in Las Vegas in 1976, Armageddon Road follows a hapless ex-con hired by a mob boss to chauffeur his girlfriend for an evening, only to find his passenger dies of a cocaine overdose.
— Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024 -
Not only was a former president prosecuted and sent to jail, but being an ex-con did not prevent him from seeking election again.
— Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023 -
In this moving examination of masculinity, Justin Timberlake is Palmer, an ex-con who returns to his small town and befriends a young boy from a troubled home.
— Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023 -
The 31-year-old father died Monday after a violent ex-con with 21 prior arrests allegedly shot him in the stomach when police approached the car where the suspect was sitting in the passenger seat.
— Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Grammy-winning musician Bingham plays ranch hand and ex-con Walker on the series, while actor Harrison plays barrel racer Laramie.
— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 May 2024 -
Thus began today’s moral concessions, such as policies in New York, the birthplace of hip-hop, whereby politicians give preference to ex-con drug dealers for licenses to sell marijuana, a.k.a.
— Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023 -
Gascon's office, under a series of stiff policy directives, sought to have the adult ex-con placed in a juvenile facility because the crime occurred before her 18th birthday.
— Fox News, 24 Feb. 2023 -
Meanwhile, her ex-con father learns to love unconditionally.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023 -
Her murder by Richard Allen Davis — an ex-con with a history of alcohol and drug abuse who was out on parole following a previous kidnapping — prompted outrage and demands for harsher sentencing laws.
— Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023 -
But this drama, with Brian Cox as a terminally ill ex-con reunited with daughter Kate Beckinsale and her son, soon reveals itself as a formulaic contrivance heading towards predictable strife and tearjerking.
— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 June 2023 -
Mickey investigates criminal activity and patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
— Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 -
Harmony Montgomery, 5, was reported missing two years after she was last seen when her noncustodial biological mother discovered her ex-con father had never enrolled her in elementary school.
— Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
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