How to Use tamper with in a Sentence

tamper with

verb
  • This permanent chip is inserted under the skin on the scruff of their neck and can’t be tampered with.
    Jessie Quinn, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Meta last month updated its smart glasses so cameras get disabled if they’ve been tampered with.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered are void.
    Cbs La Staff, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The seal on the voting equipment is used to show it has not been tampered with after leaving the elections office.
    Maven Navarro may 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026
  • In one video, the man — whose eyes are visible through the holes in his mask — appears to tamper with the doorbell camera.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Julian has been charged with tampering with evidence.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • The deal dismissed charges of first-degree murder, tampering with a human body, burglary and theft from his case.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Taryn Novotny has been charged with tampering with evidence.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
  • His defense team argued that a court clerk tampered with the jury in the original murder trial.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • Federal marshals escorted her to and from school and checked her lunch in case white rioters had tampered with it.
    Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Beck is facing two charges for tampering with evidence and lying to an officer.
    Elle Meyers, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Images will also get a watermark which shows Claude processed the file and flags if someone has tampered with it since.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Truelove was arrested and charged with felony tampering with evidence and false report/false alarm.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • That signature can be checked to verify whether the file has been tampered with since Claude generated it.
    Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities believe someone may have tampered with it.
    CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Murdaugh's defense team argued that a court clerk tampered with the jury in the original murder trial.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 13 May 2026
  • Still, anyone who tampers with even the most threadbare of American customs risks getting an earful.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The judge believes the defendant tried to obstruct justice and tamper with witnesses ahead of a trial scheduled for next year.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Police did not believe Chris’ account of the crime and charged him with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of tampering with a body.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Then the hacker can use control of the OS to further tamper with the BMC.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Police said a customer at the time of the discovery had reported that a jar appeared to have been tampered with, but no one had consumed the baby food.
    ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • Boyd and his crew pull the bottle tree out and send the rope ladder down, unaware that Sophia / the Man in Yellow has tampered with it.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Electronic logs have helped better enforce those rules than paper logbooks, although there have been instances where the former have been tampered with.
    ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • He's now charged with tampering with evidence and second-degree cruelty to children.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • He was also sentenced to a concurrent five-year term for tampering with physical evidence.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Seaberg has been charged with kidnapping, tampering with a victim and battery, according to the affidavit.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • If the group had tampered with the valve, the municipal water supply could be contaminated.
    Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • He has also been charged with tampering with evidence and false imprisonment, per the sheriff's office.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The conviction of tampering with evidence received a penalty of 3 to 10 years in prison.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Rogness is charged with one count of being an accessory after the fact and one count of tampering with a witness, victim or informant.
    Angela George, USA Today, 19 June 2026

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