arraign
verb (used with object)
to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment, a formal charge for which it has been ascertained that there is enough evidence to warrant trial.
arraigns
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present tense formof arraign (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wild she arraigns the eternal doom, Upbraids each sacred power, Till, spent, she sought her silent room, All in the lonely tower.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
In the name of the future it arraigns the past at the bar of the present, and in the name of humanity it demands social justice for every man, woman and child.
From Labor and Freedom by Eugene V. Debs
