How to Use indict in a Sentence

indict

verb

• A grand jury is expected to indict him for murder.
• On June 8, Trump was indicted in the case and has pleaded not guilty to 37 charges.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• He was booked into the Latah County Jail on the same counts for which he was indicted.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 May 2023
• Because the grand jury decided not to indict, the case has been dropped.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• All three were arrested in Nigeria and indicted in the U.S. in May.
  — Aude Soichet, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Even President Putin has been indicted for war crimes at the Hague.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• The former New York mayor was indicted last week along with Trump and 17 others.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
• Four clips of those interviews would be played for the grand jury that indicted Davis on a murder charge in Shakur’s killing.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• In June 2010, a grand jury indicted him on wire fraud and extortion charges.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• She was indicted by a federal grand jury in May and has pleaded not guilty.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• He was arrested on Dec. 30 and indicted in May, charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Most were indicted on assault charges, with hate crime and street gang enhancements.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
• Josiah and Dalton were only indicted in Alaska and so faced 5 years in prison.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• Baldwin was indicted in connection to the shooting for a second time on Jan. 19.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday for a whopping third time, adding to an already sweeping list of charges against him.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
• Trump has also been indicted in that case, brought by Fulton County Dist.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• What will this Trump—thrice indicted, under constant barrage of attack—be like on the campaign trail?
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
• He was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of manslaughter in January and pleaded not guilty.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2024
• Trump this year became the first U.S. President to be indicted in the nation’s 234-year history—and has since broken that record three more times.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• He was indicted with four counts of federal trade secret theft.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• This is the first time a former president has been indicted on federal charges.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Trump announced on June 8 that he had been indicted, and according to the White House, Biden learned of the 37 felony counts against the former president through news coverage.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, ajc, 18 June 2023
• The vote comes just days after the president's son Hunter Biden was indicted on tax evasion charges brought by special counsel David Weiss.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023
• He was indicted on a charge of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with an enhancement of intent to preserve or assist a criminal gang.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Many aides, allies, friends, and associates of his have been investigated, and some indicted, for a range of frauds and bad acts in office.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• The president's son Hunter was indicted on gun charges and House conservatives doubled down on their threat to shut down the government.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• He was charged with a misdemeanor (tampering with records), the Des Moines Register reported, but the case was dropped after the state waited too long to indict him.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
• The case indicted over two dozen other names, including five who are also confirmed to stand trial.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• In late March, a state grand jury in New York indicted Trump on charges of falsifying business records to shield hush-money payments.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• The protests follow the April grand jury decision not to indict the involved officers on state criminal charges in his death.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024