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
• Of the victims, nine were adults and one was a 16-year-old.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Megan Jones said the victim, a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
• The victim had pain in his right forearm and on both sides of his face.
  — cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
• 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
• That fight for victim's rights has shaped all their lives.
  — Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley, CBS News, 4 May 2025
• 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
• There was a victim in this case that didn’t have justice.
  — Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Even small things seemed to fall victim to budget cuts.
  — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 7 Feb. 2022
• 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
• And the fact that there are so many victims can’t be justified.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 6 June 2025
• His victims — nine who died and one who was injured — were all Black.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• An existing shortfall in VOCA funding already had providers on edge, worried about meeting the essential needs of victims.
  — Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025