: a person who rapes someone : a person who commits rape
a convicted rapist
Examples of rapist in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebRecently, a 15-year-old rapist was placed in Patterson High School in Baltimore.—Mark N. Fisher, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024 When all was said and done, many pirates were criminals, terrorists and rapists.—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024 Related article Her rapists were sentenced to life in prison.—Vedika Sud, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024 Cammy Vaughan gripped her victim impact statement during her rapist's sentencing when the presiding judge – Robert Adrian – overturned his conviction, a nearly unprecedented move that stripped him of his judgeship two years later.—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2024 One of those sisters later identified Blankenship as her rapist in a photo lineup in 2020.—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024 Still, even if Trump were to be elected, Mexico has proved to be flexible with a politician who launched his previous presidential campaign calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists.—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024 Strauss said that lawyers are the easiest to cast, then victims, then murderers, then rapists.—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 An Austrian court on Thursday ordered the conditional transfer of 88-year-old incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl to a regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit, his lawyer told reporters after the hearing.—Reuters, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
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