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.
have arraigned
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present perfectof arraign.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The charges may be correct, but you have arraigned the wrong defendants.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most abject slaves have arraigned the guilt or weakness of an unfortunate master.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Henry Hart Milman
Hence, when the Government of England allied itself with the oppressors of mankind, he saw nothing unpatriotic in arraigning it as he would have arraigned a German or a Russian Government in the same circumstances.
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
He it was I should have arraigned; and with the employment of a little artifice and some tact, how terrible I might have made even my jesting levity! how sarcastic my sneers at fashionable vice!
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
How those men must have chuckled among themselves when they witnessed the willing degradation of the man who should have arraigned them before the country as the conscious enemies of its peace!
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
