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crime wave

NOUN
  1. a sudden rise in the crime rate

How To Use crime wave In A Sentence

  • As the crime wave continues with little let-up in the senseless bloodletting that has engulfed the country, many people are politicising the issue.
  • The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.
  • It is not so much a crime wave as a ripple. Times, Sunday Times
  • The churches and newspapers fulminated against the crime wave.
  • At least the worsening crime wave is swell news for the armor-plating shops. Mexico Battle Lines — There and Here
  • A crime wave has struck the city, perpetuated by a gang of three dimwitted crooks.
  • The crime wave follows the rocketing price of the precious metals in exhaust pipes. The Sun
  • More police officers are being brought in to help tackle the current crime wave.
  • The corporate crime wave that followed the great bull market of the '90s has spawned a tsunami of its own in books and movies, critical of capitalism's greed.
  • What if all the cities in the US were wracked by a crime wave, with thousands of murders, kidnappings, burglaries, and carjackings in every major city every year?
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