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
• Read more: How Trump was indicted and brought to trial.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• Adams is the first New York City mayor to be indicted while still in office.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2024
• The three men were indicted in 2022 on criminal charges linked to the murder.
  — CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
• 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
• The grand jury last Wednesday indicted her on all of those charges.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
• Ivins killed himself in 2008, just as the Department of Justice was about to indict him.
  — Cheryl Rofer, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• Even President Putin has been indicted for war crimes at the Hague.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• Now that Davis has been indicted, he will be moved to the Butler County Jail and arraigned again.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2024
• And even Adams would probably agree that his prospects will change if he or his aides are indicted.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 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
• The firing of the two men comes just days after they were indicted for Johnson’s murder.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2024
• 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
• Kol was indicted in the drug case 21 days before the shooting death of 46-year-old Julio Gonzalez, court records show.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• Bobb was indicted in April by an Arizona grand jury in her role in the fake electors scheme and has pleaded not guilty.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
• In June 2010, a grand jury indicted him on wire fraud and extortion charges.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• Grand juries, like the one that indicted Donald Trump, work in secret.
  — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
• Two months later, he was indicted on the charge of second-degree murder in Kathie’s killing.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2024
• Over the next two years, two grand juries declined to indict anyone for the deaths of 11 people and the razing of a vibrant Black neighborhood.
  — Bronwen Dickey, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Trump is the first former president to be indicted, but others have come close.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 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
• After Hartsfield was indicted this year on the Texas murder charge, Larson said the case was active again.
  — NBC news, 27 Apr. 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
• About a month after the shooting, the 46-year-old Coy was arrested and indicted on charges of murder, reckless homicide, felonious assault and two counts of dereliction of duty.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
• In Arizona’s Cochise County, two election supervisors were indicted last November for refusing to certify a 2022 vote there.
  — Barton Gellman, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024