How to Use implicate in a Sentence

implicate

verb

• His business partner was implicated in the theft.
• Soros wasn’t the first in line to implicate Xi as the source of China’s problems.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• Berhan is the first of those implicated to be sentenced to prison.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
• DeSnake, by contrast, makes the very bold claim that his work PC could not implicate him even if seized.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 23 Sep. 2021
• Your publisher's lawyer will read it and make sure there's nothing in the book that could implicate you to the point where you get sued.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 July 2024
• Trump was not charged, though Cohen, who pleaded guilty and went to prison, implicated Trump in the scheme.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Trump was not charged in that case, but Cohen — who pleaded guilty and spent three years in prison — implicated him in the scheme.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Things took a turn for the worse when Fez's friend Custer wore a wire in hopes of getting one of the brothers to implicate themselves in a murder.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 7 June 2022
• Fulmer retired around the same time, but was not implicated in any of the rule-breaking.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• This phone was later connected to some of the hacks in which he was implicated.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• Weidman said Hildebrant went so far as to fake an email in his name to implicate him.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
• This is the strain that has been implicated in the McDonald’s outbreak.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
• Soon after, he was linked to a double murder and implicated in a few more.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
• Fish instead has upped the ante to implicate Curly more directly.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• But the fact is, climate change is implicated at least to some extent in all of these disasters.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 July 2023
• The type of bacteria that has been implicated in this outbreak is E. coli O157:H7.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
• The hacker is implicated in a number of breaches, with many of them targeting the FBI.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
• Racial authority in the world that killed George Floyd does not implicate the legacies of the plantation.
  — James Brewer Stewart, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• Once again, the loss of estrogen with menopause is implicated.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Well, 18 June 2024
• The inquiries into the younger Biden are said not to implicate his father, but questions have been raised about how much the president knew.
  — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 1 Feb. 2021
• Weeks after the fire, two local men approached her and pressured her to implicate Forbes and two other men in the arson.
  — Anna Sturla, CNN, 16 Dec. 2020
• All members of the axis have taken part in the war in Gaza, and all are, consequently, implicated in the eyes of Israel and the United States.
  — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
• In fact, the letter could further implicate Trump in a potential crime.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• Alice was aiding Aaron in a case that implicated her boss and she was poised to hand over documents.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 8 May 2024
• An Ohio teen implicated in a string of threatening calls to area high schools was charged as an adult Thursday in Lake County.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
• McCarthy has a knack for describing the very worst human behavior in a way that implicates us all.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• But the data implicating Alus was too compelling to ignore.
  — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
• The production is designed to involve, and to implicate, the audience.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2024
• Bd has been implicated in the decline and possible extinction of around 200 frog species.
  — Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
• The Boulder County prosecutor declined to pursue criminal charges against the couple and Burke, however, saying the evidence wasn't compelling enough to implicate them.
  — Jessica Sager, People.com, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024