INNOCENT in a Sentence
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269 example sentences for INNOCENT, such as:
1. She told innocent fibs like anyone else.
2. Nobody would believe that I was innocent.
3. I refuted his claim that he was innocent.
4. She was the innocent victim of an arson attack.
5. She once played the innocent victim in a horror movie.
2. Nobody would believe that I was innocent.
3. I refuted his claim that he was innocent.
4. She was the innocent victim of an arson attack.
5. She once played the innocent victim in a horror movie.
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Meanings and Examples of INNOCENT
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innocent
a. lacking intent or capacity to injure
a. lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 God knows," she said, "how entirely I am innocent.
2 My cousin," replied I, "it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
3 I know, I feel she was innocent; you are of the same opinion, and that confirms me.
4 I was innocent; that could easily be proved; accordingly I followed my conductor in silence and was led to one of the best houses in the town.
5 At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been.
6 I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations.
7 I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing.
8 No life had been more peaceful and innocent than mine; few lives so rich with benefits conferred.
9 Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him.
10 He seemed so brave and innocent, that although I had not proposed the contest, I felt but a gloomy satisfaction in my victory.
11 He was so perfectly innocent of my meaning, however, that I thought I would mention it to Biddy in preference.
12 I recalled, too, that the one-eyed gentleman had shuffled forth against the wall when I was the innocent cause of his being turned out.
13 "I will not be interfered with by Jane," said Mrs. Pocket, with a majestic glance at that innocent little offender.
14 I have seen your pleasant home, and your old father, and all the innocent, cheerful playful ways with which you refresh your business life.
15 We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure.
Example Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1 We always ask for man to innocent as child, but able as father.
2 She told innocent fibs like anyone else.
3 We must assume him to be innocent until he is proved guilty.
4 She was the innocent victim of an arson attack.
5 She once played the innocent victim in a horror movie.
6 He was innocent and the victim of a frame-up.
7 Nobody would believe that I was innocent.
8 Both groups on either side are just picking off innocent bystanders.
9 She is innocent; it was a case of mistaken identity.
10 He was charged with murder but they found him innocent of the charge.
11 I refuted his claim that he was innocent.
12 Nobody believed his claim that he was innocent/to be innocent.
13 Counsel for the defence submitted that his client was clearly innocent.
14 Ian was a hopeless innocent where women were concerned.
15 Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in this conflict.