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
• 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 hacker is implicated in a number of breaches, with many of them targeting the FBI.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
• Once again, the loss of estrogen with menopause is implicated.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Well, 18 June 2024
• 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
• Trump hasn’t been charged in the case and, according to a person familiar with the matter, Weisselberg won’t implicate his boss as part of his plea.
  — Fortune, 18 Aug. 2022
• These can represent the windows and walls that killed the animals, but also implicate the viewer.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
• But in 2018, he was implicated in a homicide once again, this time for a prison stabbing that had repercussions throughout the state’s prison system.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
• The witness identified Goodale as making statements that implicate both Goodale and Miller by name.
  — David Pitt, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• Other findings point to the rear portion of the brain, known as the hindbrain, and still others implicate the vagus nerve, which carries messages to and from organs such as the stomach and heart.
  — Mitch Leslie, science.org, 10 July 2024
• Among other things, those investigations found that Justin Sneed — the man who actually committed the murder at issue here — was pressured by police to implicate Glossip in the crime.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 9 Oct. 2024
• That process negatively impacts the Amazon sellers being used in the scheme, but also implicates unwitting consumers, the plaintiffs argued.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024