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Innocent in sentence

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Who would have thought my innocent shopping behavior would be hurting not only me, but our planet as well?
We can think we're being objective and fair-minded and still wind up ruining the life of an innocent man.
It was an innocent question from my young daughter Alia around the time when she was three.
A seemingly innocent question, but actually, it's a little trickier than you might think, considering that the average US public company now can expect a life span of only 30 years.
Even judges use the output of these machines in court to decide whether someone is innocent or guilty based on DNA evidence.
One might think that this would bring a morbid edge to one's innocent childhood characters, but Jason says of his dissections, "One thing I've never seen in a child's reaction to my work is fear."
During one battle in Afghanistan, some British men and I formed a special bond with a 15-year-old Afghani boy, Abdullah, an innocent, loving and lovable kid who was always eager to please.
Thirteen innocent people were killed, leaving their loved ones in a state of grief and trauma.
Children, without a doubt, are the most innocent and vulnerable victims ... but not just from the obvious physical dangers, but from the often unspoken effects that wars have on their families.
What could be more innocent than that?
Nor can consumers fix this on their own, because if we know that something innocent we said will come back to haunt us, we will stop speaking.
They wanted to separate the innocent victims from the rest of us.
And what's more, if we can be brave enough to face the possibility of death, even among the most innocent, we gain an unparalleled kind of wisdom.
It was the unwillingness of his government to engage in conflict with other governments, in tense discussions, all the while, innocent people were being harmed.
Over the past two months, I've lost two friends to gun violence, both innocent bystanders.
Heroes make a choice to fight injustice, to protect the innocent, to put the balance back on the side of the good, no matter how much they sacrifice of themselves.
It was a simple letter; it basically said, "Professor Sullivan, I'm innocent.
It doesn't mean he was innocent, it just means we ought to look a little bit closer at those cases.
The Taliban killed innocent people.
In her stories, a mother has a face “as broad and innocent as a cabbage,” a man has as much drive as a “floor mop,” and one woman’s body is shaped like “a funeral urn.”
"Victimization," because in order to believe she's innocent, that she's a victim, we need to think of her as helpless, paralyzed, mute.
Now, the unexpected thing about this is that Zach could stand up on stage and drench a perfectly innocent member of the audience without any concern that we'd damage the electronics, that we'd get him wet, that we'd hurt the books or the computers.
But the water also flooded the surrounding area, drowning many innocent villagers.
She wrote to her husband from jail worrying that she would confess under torture, even though she was innocent.
Those suspected of witchcraft were questioned and often tortured— and under torture, thousands of innocent people confessed to witchcraft and implicated others in turn.
It seems so innocent, right?
It all looks very innocent.
Charles used to say that toys are not as innocent as they appear.
And that trial came back with two cops going to jail and two cops declared innocent.
They got their rights by destroying innocent Korean merchants.
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