How to Use rapist in a Sentence

rapist

noun
  • The thought of a rapist on the loose has many students concerned.
    CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The best news is that an alleged rapist has been taken off the street.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2022
  • And think of Flock, who once imagined burning down her rapist’s store.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The story sees an ancient witch take revenge on a gang of rapists.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The following year, police caught a rapist in the act and sampled his DNA.
    cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The woman thought the evidence from her rape kit might be used against her rapist.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Or Amy Schumer can share a meme implying that all Gazans are rapists?
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • So there’s a double mystery: one, who is the rapist; two, who is the vigilante.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Lawyers on both sides called Monk a rapist during the proceedings.
    John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2023
  • There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The law has assisted in the the identification of more than 800 rapists.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Although a rapist wouldn’t be able to file a lawsuit, their relatives could.
    Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Taryn Cornick has a sister who, while out for a jog, is run down by a would-be rapist and bundled into his trunk to die.
    Tom Shippey, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • While a rapist wouldn't be allowed to sue, their family members could.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • On the witness stand, Sebold identified him as her rapist.
    Fox News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Strauss said that lawyers are the easiest to cast, then victims, then murderers, then rapists.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • There were rumors that the real killer was a serial rapist who escaped from prison the month before Tair’s murder.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • One of her clients attempted suicide three times while fighting for more than a decade for her rapist’s conviction.
    Anna-Catherine Brigida, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Seven-year-old Zainab Ansari—victim of one of the most henious cases of rape and murder in Pakistan—was fully clothed as she was led away by her rapist.
    Mira Sethi, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But instead of committing suicide as is customary in her culture, Mai took her rapists to court and won.
    James Bash | , oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2023
  • When the rapist finally leaves after forcing Marie to shower, the teen — who lives in her own apartment at a center for foster youth — calls the police.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022
  • In a letter to Brown, Edens described him as a sociopath and manipulative child rapist.
    oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Gallagher is looking for a break after closing a long-running hunt for a serial rapist in the U.K. and dealing with the fallout from a messy divorce.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
  • People are stuck in prison for years on random drug charges and violent rapist are out on supervision.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • After the phone calls came photographs and with them disbelief that Sharpe, a man in a suit being interviewed about charter schools could be a rapist.
    Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Both Sebold and Broadwater are victims of the actual rapist, and of a justice system that set Sebold up to fail as a witness.
    The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Decades before, Union was at that same courthouse testifying against her rapist.
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • Eventually, her rapist was convicted and sentenced to eight months in prison.
    Trisha Thomas, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Win or lose, the guy who launched his Presidential campaign in 2015 by warning of evil Mexican rapists still has one playbook.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
  • That all immigrants are thieves, rapists, murderers and drug dealers.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024

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