How to Use indict in a Sentence

indict

verb

• A grand jury is expected to indict him for murder.
• On June 8, Trump was indicted in the case and has pleaded not guilty to 37 charges.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Two Texas grand juries declined to indict the three-time Pro Bowler for crimes.
  — cleveland, 17 July 2022
• The question of the summer is whether Justice will indict Trump.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• He was booked into the Latah County Jail on the same counts for which he was indicted.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 17 May 2023
• Read more: How Trump was indicted and brought to trial.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• Adams is the first New York City mayor to be indicted while still in office.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2024
• The three men were indicted in 2022 on criminal charges linked to the murder.
  — CBS News, 1 Aug. 2024
• Because the grand jury decided not to indict, the case has been dropped.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• All three were arrested in Nigeria and indicted in the U.S. in May.
  — Aude Soichet, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• The grand jury last Wednesday indicted her on all of those charges.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 May 2024
• Ivins killed himself in 2008, just as the Department of Justice was about to indict him.
  — Cheryl Rofer, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• Even President Putin has been indicted for war crimes at the Hague.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• Now that Davis has been indicted, he will be moved to the Butler County Jail and arraigned again.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2024
• He was indicted on Dec. 20 on charges of manslaughter, assault, and abuse of a corpse, as well as weapons raps.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
• And even Adams would probably agree that his prospects will change if he or his aides are indicted.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2024
• The former New York mayor was indicted last week along with Trump and 17 others.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
• The firing of the two men comes just days after they were indicted for Johnson’s murder.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2024
• Four clips of those interviews would be played for the grand jury that indicted Davis on a murder charge in Shakur’s killing.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Kol was indicted in the drug case 21 days before the shooting death of 46-year-old Julio Gonzalez, court records show.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• Bobb was indicted in April by an Arizona grand jury in her role in the fake electors scheme and has pleaded not guilty.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
• Two grand juries have since declined to indict Watson, first on March 11 and then again on Thursday.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2022
• In June 2010, a grand jury indicted him on wire fraud and extortion charges.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• Grand juries, like the one that indicted Donald Trump, work in secret.
  — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
• The four people charged in connection with the fire were indicted Friday.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2024
• Two months later, he was indicted on the charge of second-degree murder in Kathie’s killing.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2024
• The government has 30 days to indict a person once he or she is arrested.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• He was indicted on charges of inciting a coup in an attempt to overthrow the election.
  — Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Jan. 2025
• Over the next two years, two grand juries declined to indict anyone for the deaths of 11 people and the razing of a vibrant Black neighborhood.
  — Bronwen Dickey, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Smith went on to indict Trump on 44 total felony counts between the two criminal cases, marking the first time a sitting or former president had ever been indicted on federal charges.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025