How to Use allege in a Sentence

allege

verb
  • The mayor is alleged to have accepted bribes.
  • He alleged that the mayor has accepted bribes.
  • You allege that she stole a large quantity of money. Do you have any proof?
  • Court records allege that on Oct. 25 of last year, Davis and then-Sgt.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • He was alleged to have burned his trash can on the balcony.
    Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
  • There is a range of harms and heartbreak alleged in the filings.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The police alleged the three men may have killed the couple.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The charges allege that the fraud started as early as 2019, or the year that FTX was founded.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The parents of the second student allege their child was feet away from the shooting.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Reports in the court records alleged that Bateman had the 9-year-old sleep in his bed four months later.
    Miguel Torres, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
  • The suit alleges that Tannis broke both ankles during a 2023 visit to the house.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Carr, after the hearing, alleged the lawsuit was filed to hurt her ahead of her 2022 state senate race.
    Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
  • The Ukrainians allege the attack may have killed hundreds.
    Time, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The lawsuit alleged Burns drove negligently, failed to yield the right of way and caused the collision.
    Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Race, the lawsuit alleged, is why Shaw and Moss faced greater punishment.
    Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Baur and Vang had previously been charged with child neglect, but the new charges allege the boy’s death.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The lawsuit does not allege any wrongdoing by the DIA, but only seeks to get the painting back.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The home in the Stoney Creek district of Hamilton, Ontario, where a landlord is alleged to have shot and killed two tenants.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 30 May 2023
  • The group alleges Boeing led Ten Oaks down a deceptive path in a last-ditch effort to buy time and keep low prices.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024
  • All allege that the same man was responsible: 33-year-old Bill Gene Hobbs.
    Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps most egregious, the ACLU alleges, is that police did nothing to stop this.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The complaint alleges that Combs wanted to meet the boy in his hotel room and the child was dropped off by a consultant his parents had hired.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The police sent information to the FBI that same month, but the agency did not open a case until the summer of 2006, the lawsuit alleges.
    Nicki Brown, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The statement does not allege that the company violated the terms of its agreements with the unions.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The student suffered from a brain injury, facial fractures, and the loss of vision in his left eye, the lawsuit alleges.
    Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In the lawsuit, Hussey and Whiting allege that the director lied and that they were filmed nude without their knowledge.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Police are alleged to have taken part in some massacres.
    Harold Isaac and Sarah Morland, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Some have alleged that this was to take advantage of the stifling heat of July to keep the picketing rabble at home.
    Todd Robinson, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The filing forces alleged victims from the lawsuits to proceed with those unresolved complaints in bankruptcy court.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The actors alleged Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, violated their consent by filming them nude without their knowledge.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2024

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