Sample Sentences for
misdemeanor
(editor-reviewed)

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    Mom was released from jail on bond and prosecuted for a domestic violence misdemeanor.†  (source)
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    His clothes are a little freaky maybe, but that's a misdemeanor here, not a felony.†  (source)
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    To be late was a felony in Mr. Chaucer's opinion, and to be almost late constituted a misdemeanor.†  (source)
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    Simple battery is a misdemeanor; it can mean that one person merely touched another.†  (source)
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    He had done time for a string of misdemeanors.†  (source)
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    Years earlier, he had been drawn into a bar fight that resulted in a misdemeanor conviction and a night in jail.†  (source)
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    Misdemeanors, no felonies.†  (source)
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    That day at Hurd's, you could almost hear those boots creaking by the door, as if he expected the stolen baseball to loose itself from the culprit's pocket and roll across the dark crimson carpeting with incriminating authority For Chief Pike, the theft of the ball that killed my mother was an offense of a far graver character than a mere misdemeanor; at the very least, it was the work of a felon.†  (source)
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    The encouragement Buck gave the rebels led them into all kinds of petty misdemeanors.†  (source)
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    Not only any actual misdemeanor, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected.†  (source)
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    Poor Jo looked abashed, and silently chafed the end of her nose with the stiff handkerchief, as if performing a penance for her misdemeanors.†  (source)
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    Three drug possessions, two misdemeanor thefts, three prostitution convictions.†  (source)
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    Reports indicate that over a hundred thousand executions have taken place during the last three years with little distinction made between misdemeanors and felonies.†  (source)
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