How to Use show trial in a Sentence

show trial

noun

• They were forced to confess their guilt in public show trials.
• If a show trial for a cardinal doesn’t do it, what would?
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• Have a big, flashy show trial and charge them with something frightful.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2012
• He was charged and convicted in a show trial of stealing a poster from a hotel.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2018
• Regardless, the best way to demonstrate that something is not a show trial is to show the trial.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2023
• The purges and show trials were depicted as efforts to rid the country of German agents.
  — Winston Groom, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• The metaphor is clear: The Scottsboro Boys, cast as brutes in a show trial, were convicted not on the weight of the evidence but by the color of their skin.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 16 Feb. 2020
• Just a year later, Pravda took an active role in whipping up the hysteria that led to the show trials of the Great Purge.
  — Will Englund, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
• The hearings, although not a show trial, were unquestionably designed by the Democrats to be, at least in part, a show.
  — Robert P. Baird, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• Are these gonna be any better or are these just show trials, essentially, that lead to nothing?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 22 Aug. 2018
• After a show trial, Khodorkovsky was sent to prison, while the state seized control of his by-then-profitable oil company, Yukos.
  — David Klion, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
• In Stalin's days, which are very much in Russia's living memory, such a designation would have led to a quick show trial and, for the lucky few, a bullet in the back of the head.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
• Kara-Murza has likened his prosecution to a Stalinist show trial.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• The court proceedings against her are expected to be a show trial, aimed at instilling fear in others who do not support the invasion.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• That has led to lengthy unexplained disappearances that often end in show trials.
  — Eva Dou, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• Arrested on fraud charges, Khodorkovsky was subjected to a series of show trials and shipped off to a Siberian prison for a decade, his assets seized and sold back via shadow companies to the state.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019
• Held in Vitebsk, the six-day show trial was similar to the medieval disputations with which Jews had contended for centuries.
  — Dovid Margolin, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2021
• Sentenced in a 2017 show trial to three years imprisonment, Dr. Cardet was beaten up again and stabbed repeatedly.
  — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• Absurd calls for a House show trial to impeach Mayorkas provide a welcome distraction.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
• He was subsequently convicted in a show trial of violating the terms of his parole during his stay in Germany and sentenced to more than two years in prison.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• He was then sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on embezzlement and contempt charges in what international observers dubbed a show trial.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• Even in the notorious show trials, designed to prove the legitimacy of the purges to the world, there was a laziness about the regime’s fabrications that revealed their arrogance.
  — M.t. Anderson, Slate Magazine, 18 Jan. 2017
• The show trial digs into the accident's cause from the cultural center of the still-dangerously radioactive town of Chernobyl.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• Several of them have been subjected to show trials and forced to make public confessions to crimes against the state before being sentenced to brutal labor camps.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
• The latest show trial of Hong Kong’s most famous political prisoner will conclude this week.
  — Mark L. Clifford and L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• In this way, Richard Jewell brings edifying contrast to the current impeachment show trials.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
• Otto was put on a show trial and during his 18-month imprisonment, was severely beaten and tortured.
  — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2023
• He was arrested at the airport, and subsequently convicted in a show trial of violating parole and sentenced to more than two years in prison.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2021
• Part of the uproar over Hutchinson’s performance at the January 6 show trial owes to the way Streep has influenced responses to female comportment.
  — Armond White, National Review, 6 July 2022
• Russia charged a theater director and a playwright with allegations of justifying terrorism, echoing a show trial for the Master that the film’s creators added to the script.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024