rapes
- present tense form of rape (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The early 2025 crime decline builds off numbers from 2023 and 2024 and appears to include not just homicide but also robberies, rapes, burglaries, and auto theft.
From Slate ● May 7, 2025
Petty thefts are up by roughly 14%, but other property crimes — along with homicides, robberies and rapes — are all down from the same period in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
Kutcher said Masterson‘s family approached them after the actor was convicted in the rapes in May and asked them to write character letters describing “the person that we knew for 25 years.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Most cases never make it as far as court: in 2021/22 there were 2,298 rape and attempted rapes reported to the police, but only 152 prosecutions and 78 convictions.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023
Colonel Hall and Dr. Oliphant both testify that no drunkenness, no fighting, no quarreling, no thefts, no robberies, no rapes, no fornication, no domestic feuds or broils, and no fraudulent dealing take place in Japan.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
