perpetrate - use in sentences

Modifying Another Word

  • actually: No matter who actually perpetrates the pre-announced crime, the responsibility will fall on the would-be owner of the land and of the thought.

Object

  • hoax: Many of the oddest sightings were, he believed, hoaxes often perpetrated by journalists short of copy in the silly season.
  • massacre: Early this year, they perpetrated a massacre in the village of Racak.
  • outrage: The bitter lesson of London was learned by those who perpetrated the outrage in New York.
  • injustice: I am still seated in my TV room with a clear image of the severe injustice perpetrated by my people.
  • fraud: Much of the fraud perpetrated through contact centers can be tackled through technology.

Subject

  • gang: A violence perpetrated by gangs - armed with guns and fuelled by drugs.
  • regime: This event in Nigeria has often been the target of violence perpetrated by various regimes.
  • someone: Most often this violence is perpetrated by someone in their family or someone known to them.
  • government: Scrutiny is our job in opposition, and we make no apologies for exposing the incompetence perpetrated by the Government.

Modifying Another Word

  • ever: They were the worst terrorist attacks ever perpetrated against our own country with hundreds of our fellow British citizens murdered.

Preposition: by

  • gang: A violence perpetrated by gangs - armed with guns and fuelled by drugs.
  • regime: This event in Nigeria has often been the target of violence perpetrated by various regimes.
  • someone: Most often this violence is perpetrated by someone in their family or someone known to them.
  • government: Scrutiny is our job in opposition, and we make no apologies for exposing the incompetence perpetrated by the Government.

Preposition: in

  • cyberspace: The recent E-Bay frauds are, in my view, unlikely to be the last instances of massive bad faith perpetrated in cyberspace.
  • name: Our campaign has always focussed on ending wanton cruelty to Britain's wild mammals - perpetrated in the name of sport.

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