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
  • The 12-year-old has been charged with four counts of armed carjacking.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Cox said there were no students near the office at the time of the carjacking.
    — Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • 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 girls were charged with felony murder and armed carjacking.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2021
  • He's also charged with a carjacking in which a man was shot in the leg and his Mercedes-Benz stolen.
    — CNN, 2 May 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 report pointed out that some of the carjacking suspects in the city are not even old enough to legally drive.
    — Fox News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • The girls were charged with felony murder and armed carjacking, police said.
    — Jay Croft, CNN, 27 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • In July 2020, Ball was the victim of a violent carjacking when two men beat him and then stole his car.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Listen to this article A man was arrested Thursday and charged in connection with a carjacking in November in Norwalk where a masked individual stole a vehicle and drove off with someone still in the backseat.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The audacious broad-daylight carjacking and grisly murder in Central Florida last spring perplexed law enforcement officials for months.
    — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025

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