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"Prosecute" in a Sentence (15 examples)
There are lots of signs warning that they prosecute shoplifters.
Tom declined to prosecute the person who stole from him, reasoning that the police and prison guards were far bigger criminals.
Their vessels being now full of plunder, the Methymnaeans deemed it advisable not to prosecute their voyage any farther, the more especially as they were apprehensive of the winter-storms, and of an attack on the part of the inhabitants.
The DA said he wouldn't prosecute Tom.
Sami agreed to prosecute his stalker.
In Washington, Attorney General Ashcroft said the government is determined to prosecute and imprison those who would dupe charitable donors to finance violence overseas.
This is enough for them to prosecute me.
He wants to prosecute me.
to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
To acquit themſelves and proſecute their foes
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The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts […]
to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law
to prosecute a scheme, hope, or an investigation
I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?
Nor do we believe that a country that prosecuted two wars in China in the 19th century to force the Chinese to accept opium imports has any moral right to lecture Asians on drugs.
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