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Example sentences for "charge upon"

  • Law) Defn: A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

  • To father on or upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible.

  • To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another.

  • Law) Defn: A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value.

  • Ye have pull'd a charge upon ye, Yet such a one as ever shall be thankful.

  • Whilst but seldom met with as a charge upon a shield, the lion statant is by no means rare as a crest.

  • An instance in which it appears as a charge upon a shield will be found in the arms granted to the University of Madras.

  • When a charge upon an ordinary is the same colour as the field, the name of the colour is not repeated, but those charges are said to be "of the field.

  • Angels, though very frequently met with as supporters, are far from being usual, either as a charge upon a shield or as a crest.

  • I gave another yell, and ordered my brave warriors to charge upon them, expecting that they would all be killed.

  • Snyder ordered his men to charge upon them.

  • The troop had now advanced within three yards of the prisoners, when Captain Shortland gave them orders to charge upon them.

  • That after the prisoners had advanced to the distance of between twenty-five or thirty feet, Captain Shortland then ordered the men to charge upon them, and the soldiers charged upon the prisoners, when they retreated into the yard.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "charge upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accomplish anything; analogous case; brave fellow; building materials; but there; case like; charge against; charge thee; charge them; charge upon; charged them; charged with; charges against; deck guns; good fairy; great orator; heterogeneous generation; hundred sacrifices; itself sufficient; lame duck; largely developed; march through; moral ideas; nearly pure; strong holds; waste time