Example Sentences
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The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“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
So Leda's Twins from Colchis raped the Fleece, And brought the treasure to their native Greece.
From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel
