Definition: 1. Claim or assert that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically without proof that this is the case. 2. Suppose or affirm to be the case. 3. To state something as a fact but without giving proof.
Use 'allege' in a sentence:
1. The offenses are alleged to have been committed outside the woman's home.
2. A number of customers have started legal action against the bank over alleged breach of confidentiality.
3. Critics allege that the government has ulterior motives.
4. Police allege that he graduated from bikes to cars, then to speedboats.
5. The suits allege it misled regulators and consumers by hiding information about safety problems.
6. Bush has not brought a single alleged terrorist suspect to court.
7. There is some truth to these allegations, but less than the slogans allege.
8. But it would be too hasty to allege such a contrast given that I didn't really know them.
9. The court papers allege she may be a voyeur.
10. So they allege, but do they have any proof?
11. It was alleged that the restaurant discriminated against black customers.
12. Traffic on the laneway was also being impeded, he alleged.
13. His only witness had a similar loss of memory about the details of the alleged confrontation.
14. She alleged that there was rampant drug use among the male members of the group.
15. Both children allege that the babysitter had left them alone for hours at a time.
