victim

How To Use victim In A Sentence

• A few years ago she was the victim of a con man.
• 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
• So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
• 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
• When Yahoo bureaucracy rules, people die in the health services and the aged in nursing homes are victimised while benchmark payments are pocketed.
• The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.
• Mrs May claimed that evidence from the blonde-haired victim, who had had a baby since her ordeal, was unreliable.
• 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 victim was unable to give many details about her assailant because the attack was over in seconds.
• The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name. Times, Sunday Times