INDICT in a Sentence

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Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another man indicted.

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 Meanings and Examples of INDICT
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indict
 v.  charge; accuse formally of a crime
Classic Sentence:
1  The grand jury refused to indict him and he was discharged.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
2  The president called for the indictment, revised as we know, by the clever and implacable pen of Villefort.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 110. The Indictment.
3  At length the reading of the indictment was ended.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 110. The Indictment.
4  The right to acquit people is a major privilege and our judges don't have it, but they do have the right to free people from the indictment.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
5  If there's an absolute acquittal all proceedings should stop, everything disappears from the process, not just the indictment but the trial and even the acquittal disappears, everything just disappears.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
6  She remembered him reading out a long indictment of himself for being a sentimentalist, against the peace and dignity of the State of Minnesota.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  And, that said, Chichikov went on to deliver himself of a very telling indictment of Liberalism and our modern young men.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
8  If the indictment is to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, and it has not been possible to lay hands on it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
9  That follows from the fact that I've been indicted, but can't think of the slightest offence for which I could be indicted.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The...
10  I've been indicted as well but I swear on my soul that I've neither submitted evidence nor done anything else of the sort.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
11  Being indicted does not cause any clear, precisely definable change in a person's appearance, of course.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
12  When she was indicted last spring for miscegenation, she swore in court that she was not a white woman.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence:
1  The district attorney didn't want to indict the suspect until she was sure she had a strong enough case to convince a jury.
2  Members of the National Anti-Corruption Committee unanimously decided to indict Yingluck for dereliction of duty over her government's controversial rice subsidy scheme, NACC member Wicha Mahakun told reporters in Bangkok Thursday.
3  It's a sad indictment of society that policemen are regarded as easy targets by thugs.
4  They quashed the indictment against the manager.
5  This research is a terrible indictment on the medical profession.
6  Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime.
7  Thursday's federal indictment of two hackers damningly sets out the real trade problem, because are part of the government-run hacking group.
8  Perry attorney David L. Botsford called the indictment a "political abuse of the court system."
9  After his indictment by the Grand Jury, the County Criminal Court should arraign the accused man.
10  Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another man indicted.
11  He was later indicted on corruption charges.
12  She wouldn't rule out President Trump being indicted while in office, adding that it's an open discussion in terms of the law.
13  Having served as a member of the Grand Jury, I can attest that our system of indicting individuals is in need of improvement.