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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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
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
It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd.,
From Time Magazine Archive
It was now the part of the clerk of arraigns to rise and request the jury to consider their verdict.
From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward
These "chevaliers of the lash" he arraigns with a rhetoric compared to which Sumner's and Phillip's words were pale.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
