How to Use crime wave in a Sentence

crime wave

noun
  • Allen wants police to do more about controlling the crime wave.
    — Vincent Hill, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The post-pandemic crime wave has receded, and then some.
    — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Whenever there’s a toxic dumping story, it’s not seen as part of a crime wave.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Dallas deserves credit for this attempt to protect its people from a new kind of crime wave.
    — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The result was a long-running crime wave that broke only when voters showed Mosby the door.
    — Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2025
  • How a Newport Beach filmmaker fought back A crime wave against surfers?
    — City News Service, Oc Register, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The damage persists for decades, long after the crime wave itself has subsided.
    — Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Which brings us back to the unprecedented violent crime wave in our public spaces.
    — Dara Riordan, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Competing crime trends Each side has cast the opponent as overseeing a crime wave.
    — Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Rodney Alcala was only in the city a week before adding to the New York crime wave.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Some of the arrests recently made in relation to the crime wave have been Venezuelan migrants.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
  • That terror attack and ensuing crime wave claimed four lives and maimed and injured more than 264 others.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 20 June 2025
  • New York just deployed National Guard troops to the street because of a migrant crime wave.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But when a crime wave sweeps through Hawkins, Henry is forced to question whether he's somehow connected to the horrors.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • To combat the crime wave, Pesce said retailers have been trained to mark pin pads with a specific symbol in a unique location.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The arrests on Thursday, however, were unrelated to that crime wave.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • And here at home, a crisis at our border, a crime wave in our major cities, families struggling, and the worst inflation in 40 years.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • DeWine’s visit to Cleveland follows a summer crime wave that many have called unprecedented.
    — cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Considering these facts, the narrative about a crime wave fueled by immigration has even less basis.
    — Diane Goldstein, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Secretary Mayorkas and Joe Biden opened the border — and helped unleash a national crime wave.
    — Mark Green, National Review, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The robbery was part of a crime wave against street food vendors in Los Angeles, breathlessly reported on by the media.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Because before, kids are watching TV and then, much later, there is a crime wave, but it can’t be tightly linked to TV.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
  • But most of the horror stories setting a foreboding and ominous tone are anecdotal episodes — not evidence of any sort of widespread migrant crime wave.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Tuesday was the second time Ragan was spared from the death penalty — also for an offense stemming from his 2013 crime wave.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Alexander brothers — twins Alon and Oren and their brother, Tal — are accused of a veritable crime wave.
    — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Four years after the upheavals of 2020, the national crime wave has largely subsided, and so have the anti-police slogans.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Pay no attention to the crime wave that has been unleashed by the millions of his fellow Third Worlders who have been waved into this country by the Democrat party.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 June 2025
  • The crime wave has not gone without notice, or proper efforts to rein it in, in county and city of Los Angeles government and law enforcement circles.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 27 June 2024
  • In that trial, a jury sentenced him to a lifetime behind bars for the murder of a small-time drug dealer at a motel during his three-week crime wave that culminated in Aaron’s murder.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, Adams was front-and-center in promoting the image of a crime wave in America’s cities, one that was amplified by local news.
    — Max Rivlin-Nadler, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023

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