How to Use court-martial in a Sentence

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• Hegseth could bring him back and court-martial him.
  — Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
• That was in place of a court-martial for being gay, which was a crime in the service at the time.
  — Al Weaver, The Hill, 5 June 2025
• Soldiers accused of the most serious crimes may face a court-martial.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
• Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays was found not guilty at his court-martial.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2023
• Pedro Angel Ruiz, 29, faces a court-martial.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
• But in a court-martial, a service member who argues that an order is unlawful has the burden of proving its unlawfulness.
  — Joshua Kastenberg, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
• That includes courts-martial and civil matters involving the military.
  — Raquel Aldana, The Conversation, 18 July 2025
• Radford is then expected to be court marshaled, the highest level of which is a general court-martial, reserved for serious crimes.
  — Gabe Whisnant hannah Parry amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
• The base provost marshal and military police supported the driver, and Robinson was subject to court-martial.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
• In 1746 the Admiralty convened a court-martial to determine who was telling the truth.
  — Julia Flynn Siler, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• But Hegseth, in November, threatened to recall Kelly to active duty for a court-martial for telling the truth.
  — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
• Afterward, a mock court-martial was held, complete with the sentencing and execution of a private accused of desertion.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
• The Pentagon’s decision avoids a court-martial for Kelly, who would have been subjected to a military tribunal.
  — Jared Gans, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2026
• Obedience carries both personal and professional risk; refusal can mean court-martial, loss of career and severe punishment if that judgment proves wrong.
  — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
• Officials said the Marine’s identity would not be released unless the case was referred to a court-martial after the preliminary hearing.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• Hegseth announced via social media that Kelly could face court-martial proceedings—a public threat before any formal investigation.
  — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
• ProPublica’s lawsuit was successful in getting the Navy to release hundreds of pages of court-martial documents in the Mays case.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2023
• Guantánamo judges are drawn from a pool of court-martial judges, military lawyers who typically age out of service in their 50s and may have spent only a portion of their military careers on the bench.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Contacted about these military criminal charges and his 2019 court-martial, Nelson downplayed their relevance to his life now.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2025
• The ensign, who had neglected to check the tides before entering the harbor, immediately reported his failure to his superiors, who fired him and hauled him before a court-martial.
  — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
• This has created the problem of unlawful command influence, the improper use of superior authority to interfere with the court-martial process.
  — Joshua Kastenberg, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
• The witness testimony that wasn’t allowed in Leavenworth County court was admitted into the court-martial, per Stars and Stripes.
  — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2025
• The administrative action, which is a less serious action than a court-martial, will result in a reduction in rank and Kelly's retirement pay, a process Hegseth says will take 45 days.
  — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2026
• Any service member who refuses a lawful order is subject to court-martial for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
  — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2025
• The Pentagon in November announced a probe of Kelly for his involvement with the video, and said that further actions could include a recall to active duty and a court-martial proceeding.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
• Kelly’s first defense might be that under the Constitution, the president, as commander in chief, has no power to court-martial or otherwise administratively penalize him.
  — Joshua Kastenberg, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
• Kennebeck, the Army’s criminal law director, said that commanders consider victim input and preference when deciding whether to take a case to court-martial or grant an administrative separation.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• The late William Friedkin’s final film, a remake of a 1950s story about a group of sailors facing a court-martial for mutiny against a naval captain who may or may not have been mentally unstable, will air on Showtime.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• Jenkins was apprehended and used by Pyongyang for propaganda movies before being repatriated to the United States to a face military court-martial after 39 years.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• After the court-martial of the Wager’s survivors — its surprising outcome a revealing moral deflection by the British Admiralty — the men by and large vanish from the public record, and thus from the story, though Cheap had one last hurrah.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023

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• The base provost marshal and military police supported the driver, and Robinson was subject to court-martial.
  — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
• Obedience carries both personal and professional risk; refusal can mean court-martial, loss of career and severe punishment if that judgment proves wrong.
  — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
• The Pentagon is conducting a review of misconduct allegations against Kelly to determine whether he should be recalled to active duty to face court-martial proceedings.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
• In 2014, the Navy threatened to court-martial one of its nurses at Guantánamo who refused to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike, who were protesting inhumane treatment and indefinite detention.
  — Amy Maxmen, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
• In November, the Pentagon opened an investigation into Kelly, citing a federal law that allows retired service members to be recalled to active duty on orders of the defense secretary for possible court-martial or other punishment.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026