How to Use ex-con in a Sentence

ex-con

noun

• An ex-con, Jyn more than proved her worth as a hero stealing the plans to the Death Star.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• Okello, whose real name is Kel, is an ex-con who works for a dowry scam.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 May 2023
• Inez’s old flame, an ex-con named Lucky (William Catlett), re-enters the picture and moves in with them.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• Affleck, who co-wrote the script with Chuck MacLean, stars as an ex-con who teams up with Damon to rob a corrupt politician.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 30 July 2024
• The ex-con FaceTimes the group on the ride over, which only fuels the anticipation.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• His driver – a standout Jeffrey Wright – is an ex-con who can’t catch a break when the police get involved.
  — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
• Despair makes Danny turn for help to his charismatic ex-con cousin Isaac (David Choe).
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2023
• The cemetery was closed in the 1990s, after families complained that the owner, ex-con Jules Roth, neglected the graves and grounds.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 June 2025
• Ever since, Mitch’s ex-con younger brother Mike (Jeremy Renner) has struggled to keep the peace.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 2 June 2024
• Then there’s Mikey (Denis Leary), a rough ex-con who knows something the homeowners are desperate to hide.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
• Contestants include an ex-con, a pastor, a lawyer, a poker player and Naperville’s own, North.
  — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
• The Queens officer was shot and killed in Rockaway, Queens, by an ex-con, who was also wounded in the ensuing firefight.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 15 Nov. 2024
• One is an ex-con Wood met while working construction jobs in South Carolina.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• Black Dog was a case of the latter, with dark humor framing its gritty tale of an ex-con returning to his rural hometown to start his life again.
  — Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
• The two eventually link up with fellow ex-con Barbara (Italian pop star Elodie), who now runs a perfume shop.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
• Hunter told the story of Harry Powell, a murderous ex-con who takes up the identity of a preacher in order to do his misdeeds.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2024
• Set in present-day Huntsville, Texas, Culprit tells the story of an ex-con, played by Donovan, who gets released after serving 27 years behind bars for the murder of a 9-year-old girl.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
• With the public on his side, Bob decides to run for mayor of Springfield, despite being an ex-con who recently tried to murder a young boy.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
• Detectives believe Irish killed Williams during a drug dispute, but the ex-con has denied any involvement in her death.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
• In the book, Simon also has a long backstory of being an ex-con and recovering addict.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• In the film produced by Justin Nesbitt, the actor will play Joseph, a sharp-witted ex-con fighting to rebuild his life after prison while resisting the pull of his criminal past.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
• An ex-con will serve 17 years behind bars for serving as the driver in a beloved Brooklyn chef’s drive-by shooting murder — but the men who pulled the trigger remain on the loose almost seven years after the killing.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025
• Someone from an upper-middle-class background with a culinary school degree from a top program might work alongside an ex-con on a path to sobriety.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
• Ray was an ex-con who moved into his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence college in 2010 and gained manipulative control over her roommates’ lives.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 21 June 2024
• The Republican operative and ex-con (Trump pardoned him in 2020) would be divulging Richard Nixon’s secret recipe.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• But Affleck is effective and sweetly funny as Cobby, a perpetually down-on-his-luck smart-aleck ex-con who signs on for what’s supposed to be an easy heist.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2024
• The ex-con was looking to assist the separatist rebels across the border as a way of brown-nosing Putin, and Putin’s generals were eager to use the new company to carry out arm’s-length operations.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, New York Times, 13 May 2025
• Set in Las Vegas in 1976, Armageddon Road follows a hapless ex-con hired by a mob boss to chauffeur his girlfriend for an evening, only to find his passenger dies of a cocaine overdose.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• Not only was a former president prosecuted and sent to jail, but being an ex-con did not prevent him from seeking election again.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• In this moving examination of masculinity, Justin Timberlake is Palmer, an ex-con who returns to his small town and befriends a young boy from a troubled home.
  — Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023