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Accomplice in sentence

73 examples of Accomplice in a sentence

That includes making false claims at a deposition (perjury), being an accomplice to murder, receiving stolen goods, and fraud.
One year ago, the US tried to bully the world into supporting an unprovoked war, claiming that anybody who didn't believe in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was either a fool or an accomplice of terrorists.
It is the West’s acceptance of corruption – either open or tacit – that makes it an accomplice to too many nefarious regimes, and makes its espousal of democratic principles appear either hypocritical or contradictory.
Why is Pius XII so often accused of having been almost an accomplice of Nazi Germany when, during his papacy, the Catholic Church in Rome protected and hid thousands of Jews?
But this is also Indian territory, wherein lies the rub, for the region is now victim to a creeping China acquisitiveness, with Pakistan acquiescing as a willing accomplice.
Thus “France” itself was an accomplice to the crimes of the Nazi regime.
Short of this, the West will most likely end up as an accomplice to Egypt’s continuing downward spiral into violence and economic collapse.
By maintaining cozy relations with repressive regimes and protecting them from international sanctions, China risks being seen as their accomplice.
But the Republican Party acted as a political accomplice to all of these murderous acts.
He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least an eyewitness to his vengeance!
Moreover, he feared his accomplice; perhaps, if he failed to marry her, she would go and relate everything to the judicial authorities out of vengeance and jealousy.
She fancied she read in the eyes of her accomplice, this menacing threat: "If you do not consent, I shall reveal everything."
As he had said, the idea of having an accomplice relieved him.
His suffering increased now that his accomplice dragged herself about him, with eyes red by weeping, and supplicating lips.
When the guests were assembled on Thursday evenings, the murderers addressed supplicating glances to each other, listening to one another in terror, one accomplice expecting the other to make some confession, and giving an involving interpretation to sentences only just commenced.
You, of course, saw that everyone in the street was an accomplice.
The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair.
"Certes, these fellows will all either be imprisoned or hanged," thought the terrified d’Artagnan, "and I, no doubt, with them; for from the moment I have either listened to or heard them, I shall be held as an accomplice.
They believe me her accomplice, and will punish me with her.
"Was it ever known who this miserable fellow was?""He was doubtless the first lover and accomplice of the fair lady.
Then I thought she would remember it was through my chamber you had penetrated hers, and that then she would suppose I was your accomplice; so I took what little money I had and the best of my things, and I got away.
It was a frightful thing to see this wretch, leaving a long track of blood on the ground he passed over, pale with approaching death, trying to drag himself along without being seen to the body of his accomplice, which lay twenty paces from him.
"Yes; but she would then be the accomplice of an assassination."
And as to this book," added she, pointing to the manual with her finger but without touching it, as if she must be contaminated by it, "you may carry it back and make use of it yourself, for doubtless you are doubly the accomplice of Lord de Winter--the accomplice in his persecutions, the accomplice in his heresies."
"I seek to divine nothing, madame; I wait till I am confided in, and apart from that which Lord de Winter has said to me before you, he has confided nothing to me.""Why, then," cried Milady, with an incredible tone of truthfulness, "you are not his accomplice; you do not know that he destines me to a disgrace which all the punishments of the world cannot equal in horror?""You are deceived, madame," said Felton, blushing; "Lord de Winter is not capable of such a crime."
"You believe, and still you are an accomplice of that child of Belial who is called Lord de Winter!
"Be punished ALONE, for the first, miserable man!" said Lord de Winter to Felton, who was being dragged away with his eyes turned toward the sea; "but I swear to you by the memory of my brother whom I have loved so much that your accomplice is not saved."
"I then swore that this woman who had ruined him, who was more than his accomplice, since she had urged him to the crime, should at least share his punishment.
He felt something like a secret joy at being forever relieved of this dangerous accomplice.
His only accomplice was one who could never give him away, and the grotesque, inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective.
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