Sample Sentences for
perpetrator
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    You are quite right — they can detect magic, but not the perpetrator:  (source)
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    The most famous hoax, the Piltdown man, had gone undetected for forty years, and its perpetrator was still unknown.  (source)
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    The consequences of a poorly tied knot, a stumble, a dislodged rock, or some other careless deed are as likely to be felt by the perpetrator's colleagues as the perpetrator.  (source)
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    I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself.  (source)
    perpetrated = did (something wrong or illegal)
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    A massive and highly publicized manhunt for the perpetrators ensued.†  (source)
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    Despite the tangle of clues, Florentino Ariza soon rejected the possibility that the oldest had been the perpetrator of the assault, and with as much dispatch he also absolved the youngest, who was the most beautiful and the boldest of the three.  (source)
    perpetrator = someone who did something wrong or illegal
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    After her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement, that demanded constant watchfulness, lest she should perpetrate violence on herself, or do some half-frenzied mischief to the poor babe.†  (source)
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    Count One: That on or about the fifteenth day of November, 1959, one Richard Eugene Hickock did unlawfully, feloniously, willfully and with deliberation and premeditation, and while being engaged in the perpetration of a felony, kill and take the life of Herbert W. Clutter.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Like I was perpetrating some crime by not telling, and every night I was waiting for the nightmares to call me on it, to turn me in.†  (source)
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    Observe the triple fraud which he perpetrates upon himself.†  (source)
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    There was a jail and a whipping post on his grounds; and whatever cruelties were perpetrated there, they passed without comment.  (source)
    perpetrated = done [things wrong or illegal]
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    Some of the perpetrators were dead; some of them were in custody, others were at large.†  (source)
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    [T]he perpetrator was so intent on what he was doing that he didn't stop to look.  (source)
    perpetrator = someone who did something wrong or illegal
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