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How To Use victim In A Sentence

• A few years ago she was the victim of a con man.
• So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
• I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
• One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
• Another injury victim, Andy Heald, sees a specialist this week over his sciatica, but former skipper Davey Luker is unlikely to feature again this season due to work commitments.
• The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name. Times, Sunday Times
• The center provides counseling service to victims who have been raped.
• Sharp may have been the victim of a gangland revenge killing.
• Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
• Defence lawyers routinely accuse victims who failed to make 'vigorous enough' protests, as in fact having consented.