Sample sentences for ACCOMPLICE

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Definition

a person who joins with another in carrying out a plan — especially an unethical or illegal plan

accomplice = someone who helped to carry out a plan

accomplices = people who assisted each other in a task

Your accomplice—another known troublemaker—will join you, as soon as he is located.
Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember

accomplice = person who helped in carrying out a plan

In which case, MacQueen knew of the note and of its destruction—in other words, he was either the murderer or an accomplice of the murderer.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

accomplice = person who assisted

Doctor Sikes was Sam Westing's friend, a witness to the will, and his accomplice in this game.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

accomplice = person who joins with another in carrying out a plan

She was ... an accomplice. She had helped a murderer escape.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

accomplice = a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan

Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape, notwithstanding his timid contrivances.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

accomplice = person who assisted in carrying out a plan

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

accomplice = partner

That I was here, that I have an accomplice, that I can use the bow and arrow with accuracy.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

accomplice = someone to join in carrying out a plan

By sharing a small act of thoughtcrime he had turned the two of them into accomplices.
George Orwell -- 1984

accomplices = people who assisted each other in a task

My sister, always the loyal accomplice, never snitched.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

accomplice = person who assists in carrying out a plan

He received a torch from an accomplice and lit the mound, which dwarfed him in all its culpability.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

accomplice = someone who assisted in carrying out some plan

And these new words, "accomplice" and "custody," chilled her blood.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

accomplice = a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan

accomplice = person who assists in a crime

The memory of Risa and Connor is still a fresh wound, and it doesn't want to heal. Chances are, they were caught. Chances are, they've been unwound. All because of him. Does that make him an accomplice to murder?
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

accomplice = person who assisted (in a crime)

Witnesses say she was an accomplice. I'm afraid there's only one place she's going. Same place as you: the nearest harvest camp.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

accomplice = person who assisted in a crime

Yes, you are all accomplices to the fall, and yes, we are gone forever.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least an eyewitness to his vengeance!
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Responsible or not, he was equally an accomplice of his detestably mischievous daughter.
Henry James -- The American
Russ Allen, a lifelong buddy and accomplice, offered the sound advice of a born writer in numerous late-night calls.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

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