How to Use life of crime in a Sentence

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• Yes, when the life of crime gives you lemons, steal lemonade.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 13 July 2021
• These kids have been robbed of their future, sentenced to struggling or life of crime.
  — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
• Leaving behind the life of crime he’d been pulled into, more or less free and clear.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Mar. 2022
• By now her sordid life of crime is somewhat familiar, or should be.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
• The killing was the culmination of Woody’s young life of crime.
  — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2022
• The former soccer star has also been urging young people to stay away from a life of crime.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
• Born in 1960 in Malaysia, Gong turned to a life of crime at a young age.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
• This decision, along with the death of her parents, propels her into a life of crime.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2022
• Sill also grew up in an abusive home, and turned to a life of crime and drug usage as an escape mechanism.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• The Kafkaesque conditions of the system have led baseball fans into a life of crime.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 6 July 2023
• Billy Wagner once justified his life of crime to his younger son.
  — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
• When Izi's son falls ill, he's drawn back into a life of crime with a heist that promises to change their lives forever.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• With his Olympic debut failing to lead to fame and fortune, Wedding turned to a life of crime.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 23 Nov. 2025
• Saldaña won for her role as a lawyer who helps the title character transition to a woman and out of a life of crime.
  — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
• Johnson found that boxing offered him an escape from the life of crime many people predicted would be his fate.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• If they could be influenced early to change directions, perhaps a life of crime could be avoided.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• Yu-jeong is the one who picks Beom-jun up when he is released from prison, and the two fall back into a life of crime together.
  — Kayti Burt, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
• Happy Mother’s Day to the only person who stood between me and a life of crime.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 12 Apr. 2023
• Desperate times call for desperate measures, so Emily turns to a life of crime to make ends meet.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2023
• Lucky will have Taylor-Joy playing a young woman who was raised in a life of crime but has left that world behind.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
• The visceral thriller is about Robin Hood grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
• McCallum was one half of a pair of brothers who get swept into a life of crime, and he was singled out in our review.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
• Soldiers conducting street raids lecture young men found with small bags of marijuana on the perils of drugs or a life of crime.
  — Annie Correal Federico Rios, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Jimmy instead drove away from it, too consumed with his own fondness for a life of crime, only to change his mind shortly thereafter to take the job.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2022
• Under his leadership, the motorcycle club turns into a life of crime as a biker gang throughout the decade.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 11 July 2024
• And Shelley Joseph let the bandito vamoose, out the back door, to continue his life of crime.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
• The program, when combined with a small cash transfer, significantly reduced the odds that these men would fall back into a life of crime.
  — Jim Yong Kim, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
• Many of the past decade’s smartest TV creators have, in response to this impossible problem, turned to a life of crime.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
• While Dillinger continued his life of crime, East Chicago police Sgt.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2024
• Robbie can’t get away with a life of crime unscathed forever, and Tom is facing his son’s impending trial.
  — Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025