How to Use career criminal in a Sentence

career criminal

noun
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  • He was identified as Thomas Martin Elliot, a career criminal who spent much of his life in and out of prison.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Kimber’s killer, who was a career criminal and would have still been behind bars under three-strikes, died in a shootout with police.
    — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • Prosecutors said Washington was a career criminal who had been in and out of prison for much of his adult life.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The heist seemed like a mystery that would never be solved—until a deathbed confession by a career criminal led to the recovery of almost all of the missing timepieces.
    — Fern Reiss, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Outrage over Polly’s murder by a career criminal helped drive California to adopt a series of tough-on-crime laws.
    — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Throughout Highsmith’s novels, Ripley plays a career criminal who is nearly caught or killed but manages to escape all perils.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Read full article Messer sentenced Montgomery to serve between 15 and 30 years on each of two armed career criminal counts, with the prison terms to be completed consecutively.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Gable’s lawyers have urged the government to vacate the nearly nine-year federal sentence issued after Gable was convicted in 1991 of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced as a career criminal.
    — oregonlive, 1 May 2023
  • The career criminal died of natural causes in November 2017.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Set during Chile’s economic crisis of the early 1980s under brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, the film follows Patricio, a career criminal constantly surrounded by drugs, alcohol, women and scams.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 May 2024

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