How to Use implicate in a Sentence

implicate

verb

• His business partner was implicated in the theft.
• Three men are implicated in court records.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
• Berhan is the first of those implicated to be sentenced to prison.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
• What about this crisis seems to you to implicate your entire faith?
  — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 1 Aug. 2025
• There is no evidence that implicates them in any way.
  — Jeff Capellini, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• We’re implicated in this, for sure.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
• The result gives a sense of nuance to her work, implicating the very words on the page.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2019
• Those laws arguably implicate civil rights as well.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Some of the world’s biggest brands have been implicated in the practice.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
• This is the strain implicated in the recent ground beef recall.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
• Soon after, he was linked to a double murder and implicated in a few more.
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024
• This phone was later connected to some of the hacks in which he was implicated.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• None of the photos implicate the men in any wrongdoing.
  — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
• Chances are, those charged will become more and more willing to cut a deal and implicate others the longer this plays out.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 7 July 2018
• The photo does not implicate the three in any wrongdoing.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• Neither the plane logs nor the address book in of themselves implicate anyone in a crime.
  — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
• Weidman said Hildebrant went so far as to fake an email in his name to implicate him.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
• Once again, the loss of estrogen with menopause is implicated.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Well, 18 June 2024
• Fulmer retired around the same time, but was not implicated in any of the rule-breaking.
  — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• That stealthiness has been implicated in the virus’s speedy spread.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 25 Mar. 2020
• Dank Vapes has been implicated in some of the lung illness cases.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2019
• The first thing Lowden did when the state police picked him up was implicate Smith.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
• Soros wasn’t the first in line to implicate Xi as the source of China’s problems.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• Toys were even implicated in the country’s race problem.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• Your publisher's lawyer will read it and make sure there's nothing in the book that could implicate you to the point where you get sued.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 July 2024
• The photos do not implicate any of those pictured in Epstein's crimes.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
• On the street, strangers beamed at her round cheeks and blue eyes, and at me, happily implicated in her freshness.
  — Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
• Fish instead has upped the ante to implicate Curly more directly.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• The photos do not implicate any of those pictured in Epstein's crimes.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
• Trump has sought to implicate Biden and his son in the kind of corruption that has long plagued Ukraine.
  — Zeke Miller, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019