How to Use carjacking in a Sentence

carjacking

noun

• The police are investigating another carjacking.
• The city worker was working at the time of the carjacking.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 May 2023
• Each hate crime charge carries up to 10 years in prison, and the carjacking charge up to 15 years.
  — CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The number of carjackings in the city has soared this year compared to last year.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• The suspect may be linked to other carjackings in the area.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 27 July 2023
• At the time of the carjacking, Walker was in her 2008 Acura TL.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 31 Mar. 2023
• The story slows to a crawl toward the end, even with a scene featuring a carjacking.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• The 14-year-old was convicted of five counts of carjacking for crimes committed in the span of two days.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Nisleit said armed robberies of pedestrians and carjackings were some of the crimes that fueled the rise.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
• Those numbers don’t include the other felonies such as carjacking and theft that now plague the city’s streets.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Branch is being charged with carjacking with a weapon and battery.
  — Devoun Cetoute Miami Herald (tns), al, 14 Sep. 2022
• Rashaud Nesmith was 16 when he was charged with armed carjacking.
  — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2022
• The carjacking of a priest unloading a wheelchair from his car.
  — Martina White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
• Mercuri said one 16-year-old male has been arrested and charged with the armed carjacking that occurred on the east side.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
• Guns are used in about half of carjackings, police data show.
  — Gabe Cohen, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
• Nearly 18% of those who carried out carjackings were males under then age of 18, the data showed.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• Chapman’s car was later found about three blocks away, and a cellphone was found near where the carjacking took place, police said.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Videos of flash mobs on shop lifting sprees or carjackings in broad day light are more ubiquitous, even if those crimes are not.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• The carjacking occurred in front of an apartment complex on East Bradley Avenue.
  — Karen Kucher jan. 3, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
• Fears over carjackings, in particular, grew as thieves roved the city.
  — Katy Reckdahl, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Two teens have been charged so far in connection with an armed carjacking in Hammond.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
• As of Friday, police said there have been 821 carjackings in the city since January.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• In the weeks after his arrest, there had been three carjackings with similar circumstances to the ones he had been charged with.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• But carjackings rose more than 8%, and robberies increased 1.3%.
  — Joshua Crawford, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
• The teen had just been released from custody in Illinois for a similar charge of armed carjacking, police said.
  — Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2023
• It was largely fueled by a 35% rise in homicides and growth in carjackings, which nearly doubled.
  — CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The two other carjacking suspects are not named in court documents.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• Police arrested a 15-year-old girl who police say was involved in the carjacking.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• The two men were each indicted on three counts of hate crimes, three counts of firearms offenses, one count of carjacking and one count of conspiracy.
  — CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The officer tried to stop a vehicle that was wanted in connection with a carjacking in Tahoe City around 10 a.m., State Parks said in a news release.
  — Austin Turner, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024