[
US
/ˈkɔɹtˌmɑɹʃəɫ/
]
NOUN
- a trial that is conducted by a military court
- a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law
VERB
- subject to trial by court-martial
How To Use court-martial In A Sentence
- A furious general had him arrested, tossed in the stockades and prepped for court-martial.
- Similarly, under a series of Supreme Court decisions, civilians cannot be court-martialed in the absence of a formal declaration of war.
- They at dinner before I come; and, when I had dined, I away home, and thence to White Hall, where the Board waited on the Duke of York to discourse about the disposing of Sir Thomas Allen's fleete, which is newly come home to Portsmouth; and here Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall, which the Duke did give ear to; and though he thinks not fit to revoke what is already done in this case by a Court-martiall, yet it shall bring forth some good laws in the behaviour of Captains to their under Officers for the time to come. Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1668
- The commander of the dragoons was court-martialled, and shot himself.
- The Interior Ministry threatened that the men would be court-martialled for refusing to fight. Archive 2008-03-01
- We were frightened of absconding because we thought the major might have us court-martialled.
- During his court-martial, Jenkins described an austere existence in the isolated Stalinist state.
- During his court-martial, prosecution witnesses testified Sgt.
- Now if Elspeth had been leader of those soggy Lib Dems she'd have court-martialled the lot of them. Archive 2008-03-01
- Anyway, on the time, I was marched in before the court-martial and they were all sitting there at the table, all the officers.