How to Use implicate in a Sentence

implicate

verb
  • His business partner was implicated in the theft.
  • Soros wasn’t the first in line to implicate Xi as the source of China’s problems.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Berhan is the first of those implicated to be sentenced to prison.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Trump has sought to implicate Biden and his son in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine.
    — Jill Colvin, Twin Cities, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Trump has sought to implicate Biden and his son Hunter in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • DeSnake, by contrast, makes the very bold claim that his work PC could not implicate him even if seized.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Your publisher's lawyer will read it and make sure there's nothing in the book that could implicate you to the point where you get sued.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 July 2024
  • Trump was not charged, though Cohen, who pleaded guilty and went to prison, implicated Trump in the scheme.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Neither the plane logs nor the address book in of themselves implicate anyone in a crime.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Trump was not charged in that case, but Cohen — who pleaded guilty and spent three years in prison — implicated him in the scheme.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Things took a turn for the worse when Fez's friend Custer wore a wire in hopes of getting one of the brothers to implicate themselves in a murder.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 7 June 2022
  • Fulmer retired around the same time, but was not implicated in any of the rule-breaking.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This phone was later connected to some of the hacks in which he was implicated.
    — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Weidman said Hildebrant went so far as to fake an email in his name to implicate him.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
  • This is the strain that has been implicated in the McDonald’s outbreak.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Text messages from Melissa’s phone on the day of the shooting further implicate the siblings.
    — Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Trump has sought, without evidence, to implicate the Bidens in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine.
    — Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2019
  • His son, Daniel Lins, implicated in the scheme, was sentenced to six months suspended and required to pay a fine of £1,000.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Soon after, he was linked to a double murder and implicated in a few more.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The worst thing that could ever happen to you is that you could be implicated in having caused someone to die.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Fish instead has upped the ante to implicate Curly more directly.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
  • But the fact is, climate change is implicated at least to some extent in all of these disasters.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 July 2023
  • The type of bacteria that has been implicated in this outbreak is E. coli O157:H7.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The hacker is implicated in a number of breaches, with many of them targeting the FBI.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Racial authority in the world that killed George Floyd does not implicate the legacies of the plantation.
    — James Brewer Stewart, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Trump has sought, without evidence, to implicate Biden and his son Hunter in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine.
    — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The lack of heavy two-factor usage was implicated in a wave of Ring camera hacks that began late last year.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
  • That stealthiness has been implicated in the virus’s speedy spread.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Once again, the loss of estrogen with menopause is implicated.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Well, 18 June 2024
  • The scene is a pivotal moment in the episode, in which Timothy realizes that he is irrevocably implicated in a massive embezzlement scheme that has been blown wide open for all to see.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025

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