How to Use indictable in a Sentence

indictable

adjective

• This is getting closer and closer to an indictable case.
  — Laura Jarrett, CNN, 7 June 2017
• Taking your shoes off an airplane should be an indictable offense.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
• But legal scholars and Democrats are decrying the claim that an impeachable offense must be an indictable crime.
  — Eric Tucker, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2020
• The evidence, which showed bad deeds, but not necessarily indictable offenses, predictably didn’t measure up to the hype.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• Brian Houston, who was charged in Sydney in August with concealing a serious indictable offense, said he had already been told to step aside from all Hillsong boards.
  — NBC News, 1 Feb. 2022
• At his July 5 news conference, Comey pilloried Hillary Clinton for her email practices and then concluded that her recklessness didn’t rise to the level of an indictable crime.
  — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
• What would normally be regarded as a technical violation (there are no rules defining such things), may in his or her small world assume the proportions of an indictable offense.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
• This is the moment when my brother enters the assembling facts not only as an indictable accomplice but as the spontaneous mastermind—the El Capo—of a clay-stealing cartel consisting of himself and four ten-year-olds.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group is an indictable offence with a maximum sentence of 10 years.
  — Paula Newton, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
• All agree that impeachment—which, if successful, turns a sitting president into an indictable ex-president—resolves the issue.
  — Tom Ginsburg, Fortune, 22 May 2018
• Two investigations failed to find any indictable offenses connected to de Blasio’s fund-raising operation but left the impression that money bought access to the mayor.
  — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Sep. 2017
• Even if the House committee reports no indictable offenses, other investigations and lawsuits involving him may well indict, convict, and/or bankrupt him.
  — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 16 June 2022
• State Police Superintendent Patrick Callahan reported 70 compliance issues resulting in 34 indictable offenses.
  — Kim Jarrett, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024