How to Use accuse in a Sentence

accuse

verb

• Court records accuse him of killing at least three women there.
  — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
• They are accused of helping the teen flee from justice.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2025
• What are the crimes Hunter Biden was accused of committing?
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
• In the film, Sandra is accused of pushing her husband to his death.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
• After all, we might be accused of the dreaded sin of laziness!
  — Susan Spencer, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024
• Sometimes the Jews are accused of not having any power.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024
• Now, don’t accuse me of hanging a banner here before it is won.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• Even the small group that texts almost every day to accuse me of slanting the news does so with a neighborly tone.
  — cleveland, 7 May 2022
• That suit accused the city of not only knowing about but helping to create the failures that caused the flooding.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2024
• The man accused of running over Lozano Bracho is named Hamzeh Alwawi.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Arrest warrants accuse the women of hitting, pushing, grabbing and yelling at the child over the course of two hours.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 24 Aug. 2022
• But the people in his car were accused of trying to assassinate Maduro with a drone.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Tepco, which has in the past been accused of a lack of transparency, has vowed to put safety first and stop the discharges if problems arise.
  — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Others bore the names of prisoners, the orders for their arrest, and the crimes that they were accused of committing.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• Reacting to the possible dismissal of the charge, Christie accused the president and Democrats of hypocrisy.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• In both races, the challengers have accused the incumbents of misleading the voters.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
• But when tragedy strikes, things take a turn, and locals accuse Cora of attracting the sea creature.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 13 May 2022
• Nicole Cabell’s sweet voice made for an Elvira whom none could accuse of madness, only a bad case of I-can-fix-him-itis.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
• Set the Reichstag on fire, then accuse the Communists of doing it.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Now, over two years later — and eight months after he was released from prison — the same man has been accused of raping a woman.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 9 May 2024
• Trump, Trump Media and Digital World have not been accused of wrongdoing in the case.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• This isn’t to accuse Gayot of getting into the business of knockoffs.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2023
• At the time of the shooting, Thompson had been charged with assault of a family member, who accused him of choking her in March.
  — Chron, 15 May 2023
• Russian officials said the EU will soon accuse the Kremlin of weaponizing oil.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
• Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of attacking the plant, which the Kremlin’s forces have held since early March.
  — Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2022
• In the proceeding months, they were accused in a legal complaint of grooming a minor.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 31 May 2023
• The charges also accuse Gardner of grand theft during the same period.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
• But on social media this week, Trump’s supporters were quick to go on the defensive and accuse the media of bias.
  — James Rainey and Brittny Mejia, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
• Figures on the right, meanwhile, accuse Pritzker and other critics of Trump on the right of calling out far-right extremism and ignoring far-left antisemitism.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2025
• Baldoni countersued, accusing Lively, Reynolds and Sloane of seeking to destroy his career.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025