How to Use carjacking in a Sentence

carjacking

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  • 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
  • Two of the four youths who escaped are charged in a carjacking.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 31 Mar. 2023
  • It had been taken in a carjacking the night before, in the 2800 block of Loch Raven Rd.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The gun was stolen during an armed carjacking on Dec. 2.
    — Fox News, 22 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The increase in carjackings comes as overall car thefts in the city decline.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • Police said the victim of the carjacking was not injured.
    — Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Rashaud Nesmith was 16 when he was charged with armed carjacking.
    — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2022
  • How many carjackings are reported in Louisville over the years?
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The carjacking of a priest unloading a wheelchair from his car.
    — Martina White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The victim told CBS News that the carjacking would not stop her from continuing to help those in need.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 26 May 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
  • An 18-year-old is in custody in connection with the carjacking and shooting death of a man in Fairfield.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 18 June 2021
  • That same day, the girls were arrested and charged with felony murder and armed carjacking (taser), police shared.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2021
  • 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
  • Singleton faces charges of armed carjacking and use of a deadly weapon against a police K-9.
    — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2021
  • As a 12-year-old in Lagos, Nigeria, Awotona witnessed his father get shot and killed in a carjacking.
    — Matt Durot, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In northwest Baltimore, a community is still reeling from the carjacking of an 83-year-old woman on Park Heights Avenue a week ago.
    — Keith Daniels, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Although crime statistics show that violent crime is down overall, there has still been a higher number of crimes like carjackings.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024

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