How to Use career criminal in a Sentence

career criminal

noun
  • Or at least back to playing career criminal Danny Ocean again.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Kimber’s killer, who was a career criminal and would have still been behind bars under three-strikes, died in a shootout with police.
    — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • Prosecutors said Washington was a career criminal who had been in and out of prison for much of his adult life.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The shoes were stolen by Terry Martin, a career criminal who appeared to have retired.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • But nothing for the violent, career criminal.
    — Toby Leary, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
  • He was identified as Thomas Martin Elliot, a career criminal who spent much of his life in and out of prison.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The 31-year-old career criminal has been taken into custody for a range of offenses nearly every year since his first arrest.
    — Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The career criminal was never interviewed or arrested in connection to the Skull case.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The heist seemed like a mystery that would never be solved—until a deathbed confession by a career criminal led to the recovery of almost all of the missing timepieces.
    — Fern Reiss, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Outrage over Polly’s murder by a career criminal helped drive California to adopt a series of tough-on-crime laws.
    — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Epstein, a career criminal and con artist, saw weakness in the rich and powerful and exploited it, and his emails are an incredible map of elites, and of their wealth and power.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Chaney, as a repeat offender, also faces a sentencing enhancement of level-two armed career criminal.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Diller gave his life trying to make the streets of NYC safer, and this career criminal — who shouldn’t have been on the streets with a gun — is acquitted of murder.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Throughout Highsmith’s novels, Ripley plays a career criminal who is nearly caught or killed but manages to escape all perils.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In Play Dirty, Wahlberg stars a career criminal named Parker, who’s double-crossed by a member of his team after a robbery.
    — Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Duffy blasted the city’s lax crime policies, saying the attack, allegedly carried out by a career criminal with 72 prior arrests, never should have happened.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Redford gave his final great performance in this drama from David Lowery about the life of Forrest Tucker, a career criminal.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the film, Redford appears as long-running literary character John Dortmunder, a career criminal just released from his latest stint in prison and ready to get back into the game.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Affleck portrays a career criminal, but Damon is a mild-mannered family man and Iraq War vet who’s desperate for money, hence his willingness to get involved in this job.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Even assuming the career criminal description of Decarlos Brown is accurate, the magistrate cannot simply hold someone in pretrial detention for the fun of it.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Another of the Ajax player’s cars was being driven around by the son of Gwenette Martha, a career criminal who was gunned down in 2014 and left with 80 bullets in his body.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Read full article Messer sentenced Montgomery to serve between 15 and 30 years on each of two armed career criminal counts, with the prison terms to be completed consecutively.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In that film, Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a real-life career criminal known for escaping from prison several times and for committing a string of audacious bank robberies well into his later years.
    — Hannah Parry amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Gable’s lawyers have urged the government to vacate the nearly nine-year federal sentence issued after Gable was convicted in 1991 of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced as a career criminal.
    — oregonlive, 1 May 2023
  • His persecution meant that, suddenly, the conditions for prisoners in French Guiana had come to the attention of the world, a new reality that had huge consequences for career criminal Eddie Guerin.
    — Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
  • That rejection came on the heels of the arrest of career criminal Tyler Brown who allegedly sprayed Memorial Drive on May 11 with gunfire from an automatic weapon, wounding two people and causing havoc.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 28 May 2026
  • This time, Mark Ruffalo leads an FBI Task Force assigned to solving a string of armed robberies, led by a family man (Tom Pelphrey) who hardly fits the profile of career criminal.
    — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The Old Man and the Gun (2018) Redford gave his final great performance in this drama from David Lowery about the life of Forrest Tucker, a career criminal.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Penn Station stabbing victim recounts 'crazy scene' Victim Henry Obadiah criticized liberal soft-on-crime policies after being stabbed in Penn Station by a career criminal.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
  • The example shown in broad daylight for all to see was a career criminal who was released early by the Massachusetts Parole Board (no surprise there) walking down Memorial Drive in broad daylight, shooting indiscriminately.
    — Toby Leary, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026

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