rape

How to use rape in a sentence

Murder, rape, arson, and a host of other atrocities are often the first evidence of a diseased brain.

He kept his promise, and then, after much entreaty, gave Helvetius a pinch of the powder—about as much as a rape-seed.

WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMS

Miss Laura cleaned each cage, and gave each bird some mixed rape and canary seed.

BEAUTIFUL JOEMARSHALL SAUNDERS

In the Eleusinian mysteries the rape of Persephone by Pluto, the winter god, is portrayed.

The rape of the Sabines is another incident suggesting the same conclusion.

And this is sufficiently evinced, in that there never follows conception on a rape.

And anyhow he started in with his accustomed energy to rape the mysteries of the Costly Life, and become the calmest of its lords.

To this class belong all those half-grown girls who accuse men of seduction and rape.

For rape oil the limit is 50 per cent., and in smaller quantities the oil does not collect on the alcoholic solution.

The fable of the rape of Europa, &c., was a mere national allegory, of which the following is the substance.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

WORD OF THE DAY