How to Use rap sheet in a Sentence

rap sheet

noun
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  • The man has a rap sheet longer than his trail of tears.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2018
  • The suspect, 44-year-old Timothy Day had a lengthy rap sheet and died at the scene.
    — Carter Evans, CBS News, 20 June 2018
  • Hip hop artist Doughboy Roc was a rapper with a rap sheet.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Casey White, now 40, had a lengthy rap sheet of violent crimes.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Her rap sheet was described to me as 37 pages long when printed out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • No one 6-9, with a stick longer than Tom Wilson’s rap sheet, wants to be stuffed into a phone booth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
  • Rangel's rap sheet in Harris County dates back to the early 90s, court records show.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 18 June 2018
  • The rumor that Tyreek tried to stop the bleeding with his rap sheet is unfounded.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • Given Wilson’s lengthy rap sheet, the league should have sent a stronger message.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
  • Montgomery didn't go over Callaway's rap sheet with him line by line.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • It’s certainly not the first time the Browns have taken a chance on a player with a rap sheet and a ton of baggage.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The cult leader had spent much of his life in prison, with a rap sheet that included robberies and car theft.
    — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Those with long rap sheets will likely stay behind bars.
    — Larry Hannan, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Luis Suarez has a rap sheet longer than Liverpool's wait for a Premier League title, but this is one of the worst.
    — SI.com, 21 June 2019
  • Bob is desperate enough to bite, despite her own long rap sheet.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 June 2023
  • Still, prosecutors sought five years in prison for him, citing a lengthy rap sheet and drugs.
    — Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • On Friday, state police accused one of them in his death: Day’s live-in handyman, a 36-year-old with a lengthy rap sheet.
    — oregonlive.com, 6 July 2019
  • Green has quite the rap sheet, according to Alachua County Circuit Court records.
    — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 21 May 2018
  • The dead man had an extensive rap sheet and was just nine months out of prison, the New York Daily News reported.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His rap sheet at Maryland Judicial Case Search goes on for four pages.
    — David Sturm, Howard County Times, 24 May 2018
  • The suspect, 25-year-old Assamad Nash, was charged with murder and has a rap sheet showing at least a dozen arrests over the last decade.
    — Fox News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Manson starts the ‘60s as a grubby little inmate whose rap sheet—prison buggery aside—is a bunch of crap.
    — Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Court records show Baum has a rap sheet dating back to the early 1990s including theft, assault and weapons charges.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Heck, with their rap sheet, the Chiefs pay incentives for short suspensions.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Walmart’s corporate rap sheet is longer than the lines on Christmas Eve.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Smith, who has a rap sheet spanning two coasts, initially gave a fictitious name, the source said.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The cult leader had spent much of his life in prison, with a rap sheet that included burglaries, robberies and car theft.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • His rap sheet was long, and he’d been connected for years to a violent street gang known as the Grimmie Network.
    — The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The judge’s rap sheet is having worked in private practice in South Carolina.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Mazzanti worked the phones late into the night, calling every law enforcement agency listed on Richard Allen Davis’s rap sheet.
    — Time, 2 Oct. 2023

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