Example Sentences

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Unlike Peter and even Diane, Alicia yearns for another, better set of rules—and that yearning, in itself, suggests that playing by the rules we have is incriminating.

From The New Yorker • May 19, 2016

The evidence is incriminating: a secret 1912 contract with Duveen that reads like a textbook on conflict of interest, and a clandestine "X ledger," which details the artful partners' profits, losses and restoration expenses.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Nixon, however, failure to comply with the subpoena would have far more than symbolic impact; it would virtually confirm that there is incriminating material in the subpoenaed conversations that he is trying to hide.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm afraid if I go to their house on the pretext of giving Miss Metoaca medicine I will be searched, and if that paper is incriminating we will all swing together.

From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner