arraign

[ UK /ɐɹˈe‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /ɝˈeɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. call before a court to answer an indictment
  2. accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy
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How To Use arraign In A Sentence

  • I was arraigned the very next morning and released on a personal. Show Stoppah
  • Yesterday he was to be arraigned on new charges of insider trading, filing false tax forms and conspiracy to falsify books and records in an expanded indictment unveiled May 1.
  • The mother is being held without bail until her arraignment, which is scheduled for tomorrow. CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006
  • The seventh defendant, Donna Walsh, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
  • Handing down the legal equivalent of a rap on the knuckles, Judge Teare said the public might see his compassion as "impossibly lenient", but explained he had been swung by the moral standing of those arraigned before him, as set out by counsel of the defence in mitigation. Hugh Muir's diary
  • 'Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty!' he arraigns his mother in his earnest undertaking to force her to consider what she is doing (3.4). Shakespeare
  • What, then, is my arraignment of sovietism according to the soviet constitution? The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
  • NBC is arraigned on charges of neglecting a fine series.
  • Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom delayed Light's arraignment briefly to allow time for what he called a mandatory conference. The Charleston Gazette -
  • A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word. Underworld
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