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Example sentences for "indict"

Lexicographically close words:
indicators; indicatory; indice; indices; indicia; indictable; indicted; indicting; indiction; indictione
  1. Let the order be disturbed, and the clauses interchanged and presented in the following form: “So the acceptance of the offerings you admit as constitutional; the rendering of thanks for them you indict as unconstitutional.

  2. Again, take this passage of Demosthenes, “So you admit as constitutional the acceptance of the offerings; you indict as unconstitutional the rendering of thanks for them.

  3. To indict a whole community was preposterous.

  4. The Laird now resolved to punish both pathmasters and commissioners; the pathmasters by forcing them to go to Perth at their own expense to give evidence, and the commissioners, to indict them before the Grand Jury.

  5. You might indict them all for a conspiracy," said Mr. Compton; "but you would be defeated.

  6. A witness daring enough to indict them for their many offences was certain to be indicted for some imaginary offense in return for his audacity.

  7. To indict men for crime is often a risky thing.

  8. So far from wishing to see him vindictively punished, I would much rather, if it were practicable, indict his official hat and his coat than himself.

  9. For surely, if he can prosecute Ctesiphon on my account, he would not have failed to indict me in person, had he thought that he could convict me.

  10. The points which he has omitted to indict in the Council's resolution will show that the charges which he does make are deliberate misrepresentations.

  11. One who intended to indict the proposer of a law for illegality had probably to give sworn notice of his intention, and the suggestion made to Demosthenes was that when such notice had been given, he should let the law drop.

  12. You admit that it was legal to accept the gifts offered, and you indict as illegal the return of gratitude for them.

  13. Finally Frederick II, on his coronation at Rome in 1220, forbade any one to dare to indict an ecclesiastic on either a civil or a criminal charge before a secular tribunal.

  14. You indict Mark's common sense and worldly wisdom, but are you as sure as you seem to be that he is tilting at windmills?

  15. Associate Justice Sinclair, who was usually drunk, commenced his duties on the bench by charging the grand jury of his court, to indict ex-Governor Brigham Young, General Daniel H.

  16. The grand jury, when it met, refused to indict them, and they were released.

  17. The amount of concession there was in this was just sufficient to make it impossible to indict the conversation as unendurable, and demand improvement or silence; but not enough to pave the way to cordiality.

  18. For was it conceivable that a law that quashed his paternity of his own children could indict him for his marriage with their mother?

  19. Finally, a new Grand Jury was assembled, and its first act was to indict Jack Summers, who promptly fled the city.

  20. He named the respectable men who had served on the last Grand Jury, and requested them to say why they had omitted to indict so flagrant an offender.

  21. They intended to indict Chatillon before the High Court.

  22. You do not dare to indict him before the High Court because you are not sure of being able to bring forward a strong enough charge.

  23. The grand jury was authorized to indict me in order to please the A.

  24. The contention of Ruef and Schmitz is not that they did not get the money, or that it was not a villainous thing, but merely that it was not a villainy expressly forbidden by statute, and that therefore to indict them for it is 'persecution.

  25. Yet thee and thy fellows here want to indict Peggy and me for the very thing ye would do yourselves.

  26. If any man dares to indict so much as a hair of your pretty heads he shall answer to Jacob Deering.

  27. The grand jury refused to indict the lynchers though the names of over twenty persons who were leaders in the mob were well known.

  28. The grand jury refused to indict him and he was discharged.

  29. It is not a part of the plan of this pamphlet to make any defense for that crusade nor to indict any apology for the motives which led to the presentation of the facts of American lynchings to the world at large.

  30. I'll indict you for slander, my friend," said Bellfield.

  31. I repeat," said the President, "you cannot indict a people.

  32. To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past.

  33. The white people of the South indict the whole colored race on the ground that even the better elements lend no assistance whatever in ferreting out criminals of their own color.

  34. In a world where there are tens of millions who need food and clothing which they can not get, such a condition is sure to indict the social system which makes it possible.

  35. How do you suppose Jethro Bass knew you were going to indict the town?

  36. As another Irishman, Mr. Burke, has remarked you can't indict a nation, this countryman of his proved to me that it would not be possible to indict an entire political organization outside the broad scope of campaign oratory.

  37. While of course the United States cannot, without the concurrence of one other Power indict a new defendant, it can under the Charter alone oppose this motion.

  38. Pursuant thereto, the United States, with approval of the Secretary Of State, proposed to indict Alfried Krupp, son of Krupp von Bohlen, and president and owner of the Krupp concern.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indict" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.