How to Use guilty as charged in a Sentence

guilty as charged

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  • If looks could kill, Mabel and her hoop earrings are guilty as charged.
    Vulture, 11 July 2022
  • The court of public opinion — in and out of league circles — still finds both men guilty as charged.
    Michael Silver, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Sorensen was judged guilty as charged for just about everything in his first year as a coordinator.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The industry replied saying, yes, guilty as charged, but the point of the data was to help buyers compare ranges across all models.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Pillows are essential, but often overlooked, and many of us don't get new pillows often enough (guilty as charged).
    Lindsey Vickers, USA TODAY, 22 June 2021
  • The interview did little to quell the poker world's growing belief that Postle was guilty as charged.
    Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Julius and Ethel, this guest insisted, were both guilty as charged, and to pretend otherwise was a pinko fantasy.
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
  • Keeping phones out of the bedroom is a common rule among parents of tweens and teens, yet this rule doesn’t often apply to the parents (guilty as charged).
    Dr. Katie Hurley, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Virtually no one took in the performance with a phone in front of their face, save for one American tourist (guilty as charged).
    Sheila Yasmin Marikar Susan Wright, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Tharp's masterpiece is a work that virtually nobody tires of seeing again and again — and almost an addiction for some dance fans (guilty as charged).
    Jocelyn Noveck, ajc, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Latunski pleaded guilty as charged to mutilation of a body and to open murder, which encompasses murder in the first and second degree.
    Jon Brown, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • What throws me for a loop is the University of Chicago’s English department pleading guilty as charged.
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Were none of those people guilty as charged, even though there’s footage of them attacking police officers and one of them has already been rearrested on federal gun charges?
    Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Jamie Tran is expected to plead guilty as charged to two counts of hate crimes with intent to kill and two counts of using a firearm illegally, according to a press release.
    Quinn Owen, ABC News, 14 May 2024
  • Yet every Sunday feels like a race to the keyboard or microphone to criticize the mole on Cindy Crawford's face (guilty as charged).
    Troy Renck The Denver Post, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Nizer had just published a popular book about the case, The Implosion Conspiracy, which concluded that the Rosenbergs were guilty as charged.
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
  • Even the Boston Police Department had already issued a press statement, written by still another shady cop from Canton, declaring Karen Read guilty as charged – no presumptions of innocence in Norfolk County.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025

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