Example Sentences

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“I find that Ritter’s statement that she was raped by Schmidt to be false.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

An MP has said he was raped after a night out nearly a decade ago, as he called for an end to the stigma around being a victim of sexual assault.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who've had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2024

Former President Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024

Happy, who like Ulysses or that lord Who raped the fleece, returning full and sage, With usage and the world's wide reason stored, With his own kin can wait the end of age.

From Poems by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)