Sample Sentences for
perjury
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    They told me I was being charged with perjury.  (source)
    perjury = making false statements
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    DANFORTH, containing himself: I will tell you this—you are either lying now, or you were lying in the court, and in either case you have committed perjury and you will go to jail for it.  (source)
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    Perjurers were being threatened with jail.  (source)
    Perjurers = people guilty of giving untrue testimony
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    "If you tell that story," I said, trying not to sound too argumentative, "you'll be admitting you've committed perjury all these years."†  (source)
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    I doubted not — never doubted — that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me kindly; and now, as I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls — occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaning mirror — I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode — whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed — and rise before me in this chamber.†  (source)
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    Nor was I in any legal risk, as long as I didn't perjure myself.†  (source)
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    Oh, merciful heavens, was I not accessory to his death by my supine insensibility, by my contempt for him, not remembering, or not willing to remember, that it was for my sake he had become a traitor and a perjurer?†  (source)
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    There's no way he can write the report Verringer desires without perjuring himself.†  (source)
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    He knew that there were some perjuries which, being so superstitious, she would not commit, and besides, the fear, which had hitherto restrained his curiosity, of making Odette angry if he questioned her, of making himself odious, had ceased to exist now that he had lost all hope of ever being loved by her.†  (source)
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    From "D. R. Anthony and others," he received a wire informing him that "Kansas repudiates you as she does all perjurers and skunks."†  (source)
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    The woman caught him by the wrists before he could fall as he came stumbling toward her in need and pulled him along down on top of her as she flopped over backward onto the bed and enveloped him hospitably in her flaccid and consoling embrace, her dust mop aloft in her hand like a banner as her broad, brutish congenial face gazed up at him fondly with a smile of unperjured friendship.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unperjured means not and reverses the meaning of perjured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    It was my first reality check when it came to cops committing perjury.†  (source)
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    "Iss!" said Demi the perjured, blissfully sucking his sugar, and regarding his first attempt as eminently successful.†  (source)
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