How to Use prosecute in a Sentence

prosecute

verb
Definition of prosecutenext
Synonyms for prosecutenext
  • The store's owner agreed not to prosecute if the boy returned the stolen goods.
  • She criticized the government for the way it has prosecuted the war.
  • The case is being prosecuted by the assistant district attorney.
  • Those that tracked and prosecuted the man who bought the gun used to kill her have been just as silent.
    — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 14 May 2024
  • Whether the new law will be used to prosecute the use of superyachts remains to be seen.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune Europe, 9 June 2024
  • These acts were vile, but no one tried to silence or prosecute Duke.
    — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Some states have a limited amount of time to bring charges and prosecute a physician.
    — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The kids told their dad about the incident, and the family wanted to prosecute.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The next year, the state answered the coalition’s call for justice by prosecuting Killen.
    — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • Counties leading the charge on the new approach have found such cases tricky to prosecute.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • So, the Navy made, thus far, a conscious decision not to prosecute.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
  • There have been cases, um, where tourists who took part in the protests in 2019 have been arrested and prosecuted for that.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Whitney Doolittle and Jonathan Dixon prosecuted the case for the state.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2023
  • Epner, though, thinks these could be reasons the Feds moved to prosecute.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The hush-money case against Trump was brought and prosecuted locally in New York state court.
    — Maryalice Parks, ABC News, 12 June 2024
  • He can not be prosecuted in the U.S. as the statute of limitations has expired on the murder in Aruba.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • And none have been fined or prosecuted for failing to comply.
    — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 10 July 2023
  • Legal experts said the charges brought against Hunter Biden are rarely prosecuted.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Tarrant County prosecuted Mason in 2018 and she was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 4 May 2023
  • Instead of prosecuting Prigozhin for leading the armed insurrection, Putin agreed to drop the charges.
    — Catherine Belton, Shane Harris and Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • The Palantir platform will consider the full range of weapons with the right capacities and range to prosecute the target.
    — Bruno Maçães, Time, 10 July 2023
  • The proceedings, which will resume later in May, could end in the boy being prosecuted as an adult.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
  • The trailer follows Rusty Sabich as he’s informed of a woman named Carolyn who was found dead and as he’s prosecuted for her killing.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
  • But at first, the household is overwhelmed by the intense media spotlight on a case of pedophilia and murder that François is in the midst of prosecuting.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2023
  • And, time and again, young people were prosecuted for what an acquaintance, to their shock, had decided to do.
    — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • At the age of 33, Peterson had returned to his native state of Alaska to prosecute cybercrime.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • Some will be prosecuted under a sweeping new wartime law.
    — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • And Ben Ferencz took on the moral imperative of prosecuting the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Last year more than 1,000 men were prosecuted for draft evasion in Russia, far more than in any previous year.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
  • Only a few hundred cases are prosecuted every year at the federal level.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024

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