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Example sentences for "plead guilty"

  • My true nobility of soul, inherited from my unknown illustrious ancestors, prompts me to plead Guilty in order to save this pretended mother.

  • She means, my Lord, to plead Guilty and to take the consequences.

  • The lawyer advised the defendant to plead guilty, provided the judge could be induced to let him off with a fine, which the policy King agreed to pay.

  • She had offered to plead guilty if she could get off with twenty years!

  • Both had offered to plead guilty to a slightly lower degree of crime before the case was moved for trial.

  • But before Bob had a chance to reply, Foster exclaimed: "He does not want to plead guilty, your honor.

  • I think he wants to plead guilty," interposed one of the plain-clothes men whom the sergeant had ordered to make a case against the boy.

  • Then you owe it to me to plead guilty, and relieve me from responsibility.

  • I owe it to myself not to plead guilty," said Charlton, speaking still gently, for his old imperious and self-confident manner had left him.

  • If you are guilty, and so awfully conscientious, plead guilty at once.

  • After all, a good many of us will have to plead guilty to the charge of nervousness.

  • If he is wise, he'll plead guilty--his solicitor will advise him to do that.

  • And that he means to go through his trial, and to plead guilty to a charge of murder, so that the real criminal should escape.

  • Some did plead guilty, and did get off with lighter punishments than those who stood their trial; but I was determined to have a public trial, or else be honorably discharged.

  • My solicitor advised me to plead guilty, telling me I should thus get off with a lighter punishment; but I refused.

  • On the eleventh day of the Assizes I was placed in the dock with a number of prisoners who had agreed to plead guilty, and enter into bonds.

  • Do you," intoned the judge for the third and slightly more impatient time, "plead guilty or not guilty to the charge of murder against you?

  • Do you," began the judge again, "plead guilty or not guilty?

  • Personally I plead guilty to something of the same spirit.

  • Illustration: Personally I plead guilty to something of the same spirit.

  • The third course was to plead guilty, and take a short cut on the best terms possible to what was realized to be a pre-arranged conclusion.

  • He argued that for him to plead guilty to the extortion charge would weaken his testimony in the bribery cases.

  • Even after the immunity contract had been signed, Ruef continued to urge Burns that he be not required to plead guilty.

  • It will not do to lessen the weight of my testimony any by having me plead guilty in that extortion case.

  • So far as I have striven to walk in the footsteps of my Master--so far as my weak unworthy efforts have been directed to follow His example--to this also I plead guilty.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plead guilty" 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:
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