perpetrate

How To Use perpetrate In A Sentence

• I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
• We are often obliged to report on mayhem and savage behaviour perpetrated by thugs who are barely out of rompers.
• But whatever means they find to perpetrate this assault they must be opposed for the warmongers they are.
• The cruelty perpetrated on the family must cease immediately.
• Looking back at Labour health policy now, I have to ask myself how so many of us were unable to see through the mists of what Leys and Player call the "misrepresentation, obfuscation, and deception" perpetrated by Blair, Brown, and a host of health ministers all too willing to genuflect to the market zeitgeist. The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player – review
• What distinguishes them is not the nature of the fraud but the technical means by which it is perpetrated, and this is a matter of indifference in English law.
• `And how, precisely, do you think I, who am under lock and key myself, could perpetrate such an outrage? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
• The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
• Why do these criminals feel they can perpetrate such horrendous crimes and get away with it?
• He used his diary to put a fine gloss on the horrors the regime perpetrated.