How to Use in absentia in a Sentence

in absentia

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• She was convicted of the crime in absentia.
• They were sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• After the escape, Amiri was sentenced to 18 years in prison in absentia.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2020
• The former leader was last month sentenced to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
• This mirroring comes from years of working together, making the ballet a kind of self-portrait in absentia.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• In 2020, after being tried in absentia on corruption charges, he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The Frenchman who encouraged the plot, Rachid Kassim, was tried in absentia.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
• He was convicted in absentia of war crimes and sentenced to death by a French court after the war, along with other participants in the massacre.
  — David Rising, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2019
• Musharraf, who was sentenced in absentia, has been out of the country since 2016, when he was allowed to leave on bail to seek medical treatment abroad.
  — Munir Ahmed, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
• The alleged shooter, Michael James Gresham, 38, was charged in absentia with second degree assault.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
• However, the pair were convicted again in absentia in 2013 before being acquitted again.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Of the six men sentenced to death, two are also on the run and were tried in absentia.
  — Reuters, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
• In Kuwait, in absentia, Low was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
• The Russians are not in custody, and the charges were filed in absentia to Ukrainian courts.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• One of the 10, presumed killed in Syria, will be tried in absentia.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022
• Twenty men are charged, but six of them will be tried in absentia.
  — Fox News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Last month, a court in Ukraine sentenced him to 14 years in prison in absentia on charges of treason.
  — Artem Grudinin, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• His son was sentenced in absentia by a French court and sentenced to five years in prison.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• In 1999, six Libyans are tried in absentia and convicted in a French court.
  — CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• In 2011, a Moscow court sentenced him in absentia to decades in prison.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• Thaksin was found guilty of the charges in absentia during his exile.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
• Now that there are but two left, aside from Trump in absentia, that question must be asked again.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2024
• But there is no way to arrest Vladimir Putin in Russia, and the court cannot try someone in absentia.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• He was convicted in absentia in 2001 for his role in that case.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• Five of the six men being tried in absentia are presumed dead; the whereabouts of one man is unknown.
  — Arno Pedram, ajc, 8 Sep. 2021
• All four refused to attend the trial, and were tried in absentia.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
• Ladislav Otakar Skakal, who was sentenced in absentia to prison, could not be reached for comment.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
• In 2002, Denaro was convicted of a number of crimes in absentia and sentenced to life in prison.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• Ayvazyan was sentenced sentenced in absentia last month to 17 years in prison and his wife to six years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• Sonko, who didn’t attend his trial in Dakar and was judged in absentia, has not been seen or heard from since the verdict.
  — Sam Mednick, ajc, 16 June 2023

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024