Example Sentences

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“This is a detective who I will argue has botched the investigation... He only chose to do certain things that were incriminating to my client.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

By then, the bureau’s technical experts thought there was too little time before the election to go through the emails and determine whether any were incriminating.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2018

"They were really juvenile," he said, denying that he deleted them because they were incriminating.

From US News • Aug. 26, 2015

Why did they do so knowing that the confessions were incriminating, that the boys were both intellectually disabled and that they were being interrogated in the absence of any legal representation?

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2014

Mrs. Watson asked, in a shocked tone, giving him a significant look which, interpreted, meant that was not the time to tell the truth if the truth were incriminating.

From The Second Chance by McClung, Nellie L.