How to Use victim in a Sentence

victim

noun

• He was the victim of an error.
• The victim tried to drive away but was shot in the process.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 12 July 2023
• The male victim was close to a small shed and the dog kennel on the left.
  — CBS News, 4 Mar. 2023
• The victim was pronounced dead on the scene at 2:03 a.m.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2022
• The suspects hit the victims in the face and body, police said.
  — Matt Foster, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2024
• The young boy was the first victim of ransom in the United States.
  — Fox News, 27 July 2024
• The 43-year-old victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Fox News, 24 July 2022
• In that case, too, the victims paid the hackers' ransom.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• The crash report did not provide the age or name of the victim.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2025
• Court records show that the victim was shot in the head but survived the attack.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
• On Friday, the names of the 18 victims who lost their lives were released.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
• One of the victims who died lived in an apartment on the same block on which the body was found Wednesday.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
• All three victims were found dead from gunshot wounds in the car.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
• Jones gave up his cell phone, which had the same number as the calls and texts made to the victim, the complaint said.
  — Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• At that crime scene, Dex notices the victim was strangled from the front.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
• Kevin Bohlin signed the names of the four victims from the area’s Deaf community who were killed.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• The third victim, the 29 year-old, was pronounced dead Friday.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• At least one of the employees in the break room at the time of the shooting was a victim in the battery case, Gray said.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• And, my thoughts go out to anyone who, like me, has ever been the victim of any kind of abuse.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2023
• The older victim was the mother of the baby and was pregnant.
  — Chron, 19 Feb. 2023
• One man who was involved in the argument came back, stabbed the victim in the arm, then fled.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• His victims — nine who died and one who was injured — were all Black.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Much of his staff and the reporters who cover him have fallen victim to the 13-hour jet lag.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• The number of victims killed in the Bourbon Street attack has risen to 15, Fox News has learned.
  — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
• The researcher and theft victim next turned to crime forums on the dark web and YouTube videos discussing how to steal cars.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
• The male victim in that incident was pronounced dead on the scene at 4:14 a.m.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 28 Oct. 2022
• The attack did not break the skin of the victim; Game and Fish did not say if the victim was treated for rabies.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
• As soon as the victim sends a pic or video, everything changes.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2024
• One thing is clear—inside every culprit, there’s a victim crying for help.
  — Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Time, 3 May 2025
• Yet even as Bix seems to be an avatar for all the suffering and trauma the Star Wars galaxy has to offer, Arjona is adamant that her character is not a victim.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 2 May 2025