How to Use in absentia in a Sentence

in absentia

adverb

• She was convicted of the crime in absentia.
• Those lucky enough to escape arrest are tried in absentia.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• The jury took less than an hour to convict Chaney in absentia of both counts.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2017
• Arias was later sentenced in absentia to 17 years in prison.
  — Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
• True to its leak, the supreme court convicted Arias — convicted him in absentia.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• German law does not provide for trial in absentia, and most of the accused wisely do not travel outside Syria.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• Mengistu was convicted in absentia in 2006 of genocide and later sentenced to death.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
• One month after his death, Claudia Hoerig was charged in absentia with aggravated murder.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Three former Russian agents were tried in absentia and found guilty of the crime in 2022.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 July 2024
• They were sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• One of the 10, presumed killed in Syria, will be tried in absentia.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022
• Yingluck was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
  — Kaweewit Kaewjinda, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
• 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
• Some of the biggest diehard fans like young Jesse here who even still went to D.C. to be there to honor them in absentia.
  — Fox News, 6 June 2018
• 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
• The whereabouts of Low and Loo, who were charged in absentia, remain unknown.
  — Yudith Ho, Washington Post, 18 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024