rape

Example Sentences

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Mr. Swalwell has denied the accusations of rape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Those media outlets reported that the staff member accusing Swalwell of rape was 21 when she began working for him in 2019 in his Castro Valley district office.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

Local spokesperson Bright Edafe told Channels TV on Monday that no formal report of rape had been made in connection with the festival.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Gisèle Pelicot, who has become a global figurehead of feminism after waving her right to anonymity in a high-profile rape trial in France, is among the headliners at this year's Hay Festival.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall