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 verdict is already in: Israel is guilty as charged, of every manner of war crime and abuse.
    WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The jury's verdict on eight charges, including two counts each of first-degree murder, felony murder and kidnapping: guilty as charged.
    CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • My 11-year-old loved watching the pups roll balls and play a giant floor piano, but for non-dog owners (guilty as charged), parts of the series—like dressing dogs in little hats and outfits for a Parisian fashion show—feel lame.
    Tim Neville, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Despite some of the doomsday projections for tech earnings (guilty as charged), several tech companies that make their bones off the commercial class, rather than working class, have surprisingly upbeat results from the most recent quarter.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 27 July 2022
  • The jury found the two entities of the Trump Organization guilty as charged on all counts, including scheme to defraud, conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2022

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