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
The very actions, however, which he arraigns, have been such as the great majority of my fellow citizens have approved.
From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren
‘What?’ said the clerk of arraigns, stretching anxiously forward.
From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward
