felon

Example Sentences

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He said federal immigration agents would be required to have judicial warrants before entering homes or businesses unless they were pursuing a known felon.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Life as an indicted felon is harsh, even if you’re abroad; you can kind of continue to live in sanctuary in Venezuela until the government changes.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2026

“I’m gonna be a felon for branding my own cattle. I literally could not sleep.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

The defendant, Jaime Ramirez, was indicted on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked “upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry