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Confessed in sentence

177 examples of Confessed in a sentence

Six weeks into his prison sentence, van Meegeren confessed.
Her Hebrew was not good, and she later confessed that she thought that I had come to install the Internet.
He called up the local newspaper, he got the interest of an investigative journalist, and that journalist actually found the real rapist, a man who ultimately confessed to this rape, a man who was thought to have committed 50 rapes in that area, and when this information was given to the judge, the judge set Titus free.
Together, they served 89 years for murders that they didn't commit; murders that they falsely confessed to committing when they were teenagers.
So they didn't do the crime, and yet one-quarter of them confessed to it anyway.
In one study of exonerations, for example, only eight percent of adults had falsely confessed, but 42 percent of juveniles had done so.
So here's a clip of Brendan talking to his mom after he confessed, when it was obviously far too late for him.
You can just look at the case of the Central Park Five: five teenagers who falsely confessed to a brutal gang rape in 1989, with their parents by their sides.
Hany was into his second year in limbo when I went to visit him recently, and we conducted our entire conversation in English, which he confessed to me he learned from reading all of Dan Brown's novels and from listening to American rap.
My immediate managers had not confessed to their higher-ups that the programmer they hired for a serious job was a teen girl who wore jeans and sneakers to work.
When they finally caught him, he confessed that he killed the girl because she refused to have sex with him.
Defense: She was engaged in adultery to which she confessed!
They had confessed.
As he wrung his hands, he confessed, "Judge, I realized that it was my fault, because I used that same park to get high, and before you sent me there to do community service, I had never gone to the park when I wasn't high, so I never noticed the children playing there."
Now, prior to me showing up onstage, I confessed I'm a positive, optimistic person, so let me give you an optimistic pitch, which is, think of yourself back 300 years ago.
Those suspected of witchcraft were questioned and often tortured— and under torture, thousands of innocent people confessed to witchcraft and implicated others in turn.
When Hans and Sophie confessed, they were immediately led to court and sentenced to death by guillotine.
By the time he wrote his third report, he confessed that he had failed and instead had created a society of welfare consumers.
A few years before he died, after he had resumed writing poetry, but in secret, he confessed to a friend in a letter that I found when I was doing my research: "I've written a verse.
CA: I mean, there's been this U.S. intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, arrested, and it's alleged that he confessed in a chat room to have leaked this video to you, along with 280,000 classified U.S. embassy cables.
They were having so much fun, one guy even confessed that he was having more fun at the company Christmas dinner than at his own Christmas dinner.
Lewis has confessed (elsewhere) that his introduction to DOCTOR GORE was improvised before he'd even seen Patterson's film!
Also at the end one of the characters confessed a past misdemeanor to her friend, rather than generating sympathy from the audience, most people started to giggle.
And I say: if a Catholic priest witnesses a murder, and clearly sees the face of the killer, he CAN report it to the police, even if the murderer has confessed to him afterwards.
The ending again is full of energy as the show wraps up to the tunes of Lucky Star and Hung Up and hundreds of golden balloons fall from the ceiling at the end the message "Have you confessed?"
I love film and I am a confessed stickler.
Being a self confessed slasher addict means that it's very rare that I get the chance to review many bigger budgeted movies with creditable casts.
Being a self confessed horror fan I sat down to this not quite knowing what to expect.
At least three people I know have confessed to falling asleep during this.
"In the 1980's the horror writing genius and self confessed "sooth" Garth Marenghi penned a ground-breaking series of tele-plays.
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