How to Use acquittal in a Sentence

acquittal

noun

• The case resulted in an acquittal of the defendant.
• The case resulted in acquittal of the defendant.
• Several jurors voted for acquittal.
• An acquittal may lead others to wait for their own day in court.
  — Michael Kunzelman, ajc, 28 Feb. 2022
• That would delay an acquittal that had seemed inked in for this week.
  — The Economist, 27 Jan. 2020
• Combs still faces prison time, but his acquittals spared him from what could have been life in prison.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
• Their appeals ask for an acquittal of all charges or a new trial.
  — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2022
• But a brilliant defense may not be enough to get an acquittal.
  — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019
• That could make an acquittal all the more stunning, some observers said.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• No verdict can take the place of systemic change, but an acquittal would make things even worse.
  — Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
• Novak filed the first of two lawsuits about a month after his acquittal.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 4 May 2022
• After his acquittal, Johnson had a mere ten months left in his term.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 10 June 2019
• The acquittal and dismissals came before the defense even put on its case.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 21 Feb. 2018
• Leave a reasonable doubt and the dealer could walk away with an acquittal.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 19 Mar. 2018
• The verdict marked the first full acquittal among the hundreds of people charged in the breach.
  — Sadie Gurman, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2022
• As Lewis notes, the odds of an acquittal in federal court are about half of one per cent.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• That it'll either get dismissed by a judge, there'll be a hung jury, there'll be an acquittal.
  — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
• But now, two weeks after Rolfe’s acquittal, the moment felt right.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
• The next day, the jury returned a complete acquittal of all of the doctors on all counts.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2022
• Read’s acquittal, however, was not the end of the story.
  — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
• The nephew won the acquittal while the uncle was on the judicial oversight body.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
• The lawyer, for the sake of his reputation and livelihood, needs to win more than an acquittal.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Ironically, the three acquittals should be of great help to the state on appeal.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 Feb. 2020
• And in the case of wrongful acquittal, such as ours, the same principle should apply.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
• That trial ended in an acquittal in June.
  — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
• The acquittal is set to raise more questions over the ICC’s role.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
• Legal experts said doing so could have been a path to full acquittal – or to guilty verdicts on both counts.
  — John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 29 Dec. 2025
• The acquittal also means the state will pay the defendants’ legal fees.
  — Byjeffrey Mervis, science.org, 17 Nov. 2022
• Winslow was found not guilty on the second of lewd conduct charge, his only acquittal of the 12 counts.
  — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• Knox served four years in prison and was released after her acquittal in 2011.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025