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.
was arraigning
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past progressiveof arraign.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was arraigning his parent now with open severity.
From In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date by Clara Louise Burnham
Patricia was arraigning herself with Sylvia for reasons best known to herself.
From The Shield of Silence by George Loughridge
It was as if Dick represented the universe Raven was arraigning, was counsel for it, so to speak, and Raven had got, in sheer decency of honor, to stand to his guns.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
One by one she was arraigning all the old tricks she had used in her trade of getting on in the world.
From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter
In the meantime Lieutenant Preston was arraigning the captured delinquents before the officer in charge, and the commandant of midshipmen had already been telephoned for and was on the way.
From Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
