How to Use crime scene in a Sentence

crime scene

noun
  • Those two things made the crime scene so hard to parse.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That's just 10 miles from the crime scene.
    — Michael Ruiz , Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In stasis, much like that crime scene.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
  • That’s more than 460 miles from the crime scene.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Police stopped Clifton near the crime scene.
    — Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Nancy Guthrie’s house is now a crime scene.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 May 2026
  • Sajid Akram was shot dead by police at the crime scene.
    — ABC News, 4 May 2026
  • Sajid Naveed was shot dead by police at the crime scene.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Police tape stretching across a road in front of a crime scene.
    — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Police tape stretching across a road in front of a crime scene.
    — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The school is just a 10-mile drive across the state line from the crime scene.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The house that had been their gathering place was now a crime scene.
    — Kayna Whitworth, ABC News, 1 July 2025
  • The car was found at a home an eight-minute drive from the crime scene, police said.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Biondolino and his team had a lot of questions about the crime scene.
    — Marcelena Spencer, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The two then get in a car and drive away from the crime scene together.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Nanos has declined to confirm whether those claims match the crime scene.
    — Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Your first step isn’t to look at the video—that would be like traipsing through a crime scene.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Hazard’s car, meanwhile, had been blocked off as part of the crime scene.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
  • Cell phone records also showed that Bryan had been in the area of the crime scene.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 11 July 2025
  • The first big break in the case came from one of the first officers at the crime scene.
    — Paul Larosa, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • That was a crime scene, And that crime scene was compromised.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The crime scene has now been fully processed, Nanos added.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Police are now treating that same bedroom as a crime scene.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The victim, Lipscomb, was found at the crime scene.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The man was detained and taken to the crime scene, police said.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 May 2026
  • Fresh crime scene tape wrapped around the length of the house — and was then promptly taken down.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The police inspected the crime scene and searched the room.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Court documents show the suspect lives about a mile south of the crime scene.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
  • My husband was just murdered in the foyer of our house, which is now a crime scene.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 8 June 2025
  • But one particular area, near the crime scene, still needs to be combed over.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 6 May 2026

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