How to Use accomplice in a Sentence

accomplice

noun
Definition of accomplicenext
Synonyms for accomplicenext
  • He was convicted as an accomplice to murder.
  • Bai and the accomplice sold the gift cards to the customer for about 90 cents on the dollar.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And who the hell knew yet if there was even an accomplice?
    — Jay Kirk, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Pye and his accomplices drove away, tossing their masks and gun from the car during the drive.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Both accomplices have been charged with murder in the homicide of Kevin Brown Sr.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024
  • My mom has been my mom, but also my friend and my accomplice.
    — Luisa Calle, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Given a choice, the rear really is the place to be if the chauffer, or a willing accomplice, takes the wheel.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 27 June 2023
  • Then the robber walked with his accomplice out of the bank vault and into police custody.
    — Donald Beaulieu, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • As the wife of a wanted man, she was now considered an accomplice.
    — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Under Texas’s law of parties, an accomplice can face the same charge as the person who causes a death.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • This accomplice then directs the victim to a scam website.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In an attempt to escape, Ava and Teresa are killed, but Ray survives and kills the accomplice.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The mayor also added a video of the dive on his account, saying that the man and his accomplice who took the video will be arrested.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • His wife and accomplice, Wanda Barzee, was released from prison in 2018.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The accomplice, 85-year-old Beverly Roberts, had been found later, skulking about the drive’s seat of her own car.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In an attempt to escape, Ava and Teresa are killed by the accomplice, before Leo kills him.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The thief’s device sends that signal to an accomplice standing near the owner’s home, which transmits a copy of the car’s signal.
    — Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But a new study published in Science Advances reveals that El Niño had a stealthy accomplice: the moon.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2022
  • That could lead to someone being charged as an accomplice.
    — Alex Stone, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • One of the accomplices ends up shooting Thorsen while Juarez gets knocked out by another.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 18 June 2023
  • His accomplice was sentenced to nine years in prison and released on parole after about four.
    — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • One of his accomplices told police that Pinkin laughed about the shooting afterwards.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Each accomplice saboteur brings its own set of challenges.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Tierney said there’s no evidence of any accomplices in the murders.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 15 July 2023
  • Texas law allows for accomplices to face the same charges as a person who causes a fatality.
    — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • John Ruffo was convicted in Virginia, along with an accomplice, of a fraud scheme worth $350 million.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Sennett died by suicide a week after her death, while Smith’s accomplice was executed for the crime in 2010.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Farook and his 27-year-old wife and accomplice, Tashfeen Malik, were both killed in a gun battle with police after the shooting.
    — oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2023
  • As a condition of Blanchard’s guilty plea, none of his accomplices received prison sentences.
    — Time, 13 July 2023
  • Why agree to being an accomplice to the whims of a nonsensical providence?
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 1 Feb. 2023

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