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Example sentences for "arraignment"

Lexicographically close words:
arraie; arraied; arraign; arraigned; arraigning; arraigns; arrange; arranged; arrangement; arrangements
  1. It did not appear to occur to the sheriff that the hiring of Pinkerton detectives was an offensive arraignment of himself as the county's chief executive officer.

  2. He set about gathering evidence that would warrant the arraignment of the evil-doers in his district; but when he brought it to the police he was treated with scorn and called liar.

  3. Laws may be evaded, and too often are; tags betraying that goods are "tenement made" may be removed, and they make no appeal anyhow to a community deaf to the arraignment of the bargain counter.

  4. Out of that meeting came the most awful arraignment of a city government which the world has ever heard.

  5. And Kate Kilgour, remembering the vagrant on the broad highway, wrote down the arraignment of this person, trying to understand her emotions.

  6. But the chairman seemed to be as wholly absorbed by this astonishing arraignment as were the delegates.

  7. A brilliant arraignment of property and the State Pierre Proudhon 2.

  8. The temper of the Government was not improved when young Dunlop rose, and, in a few quiet and well-chosen words, asserted the right of Parliament to protect its members from officious military arraignment on frivolous and vexatious pretexts.

  9. His manner, however, was at times fiery--especially when exposing cases of hardship and injustice, when his arraignment of the Executive was vehement and uncompromising.

  10. The first of these clippings was the article containing the arraignment of Jethro Bass which Mr. Merrill had shown to his wife, and which had been the excuse for Miss Penniman's call.

  11. The article was an arraignment of Jethro Bass--and a terrible arraignment indeed.

  12. His last speech in the Commons comprised a sharp arraignment of the House of Lords, with a forecast of the clash which eventually would lead (and, in point of fact, has led) to the reconstitution of that chamber.

  13. His arraignment of Benton before the people of Missouri in 1849, when he was but thirty-two years of age, was one of the most aggressive and successful warfares in our political annals.

  14. Thus, at the beginning of the anonymous Arraignment of Persecution, the author of which was a Henry Robinson (antè, p.

  15. One would fain believe that his ardent love of peace and bitter arraignment of the madness of war had some effect.

  16. A Dutch historian recently tried to trace back the opposition of the Dutch against the king of Spain to the influence of Erasmus's political thought in his arraignment of bad princes--wrongly as I think.

  17. His Journal d'une Femme de Chambre is the most complete and awful arraignment of society it is possible to imagine between the covers of a single volume.

  18. Like its predecessor in the same genre, The Young Men's League, it is a prose drama, a study of manners, and a scathing arraignment of civic dishonesty.

  19. In her room upstairs Ollie, while entirely unaware of Mrs. Greening's vehement arraignment of Isom, bitterly indorsed it in her heart.

  20. The good name of the nation is involved, unnecessarily, by the mere fact of arraignment of these defendants under an indictment; but your verdict of "not guilty" may yet save it.

  21. The motion now before the Court is for the arraignment of the prisoners, and counsel asks for time to plead.

  22. This, written about 1825, is a severe arraignment of the blessings of our civilization; but it is also a sincere compliment to the character of South American women and so is worth quoting.

  23. Mr. Crawford's answer to this arraignment was brief and pointed.

  24. He had not come to the Senate this day with the least expectation of being called to justify that remark, or to hear a long arraignment of it argued; but he was ready at all times to justify, and he would quickly do it.

  25. A Scathing Arraignment of the German War Policy.

  26. A stupendous arraignment of modern marriage which has created an interest on the stage that is almost unparalleled.

  27. It is a terrible arraignment which Gibbon draws against apostate Christendom in the concluding paragraph of his review of the persecutions which had been endured by the followers of Christ in the Christian centuries preceding Constantine.

  28. This is a tremendous arraignment of all Christendom.

  29. It came under as vigorous arraignment by the writers of the fifteenth century as did the ridiculous forms of hair dress.

  30. Wasn't that a terrible arraignment of Prosecutor Murgatroyd!

  31. During the arraignment the girl kept herself up with that courage peculiar to most young offenders.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arraignment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allegation; anathema; arraignment; bail; blame; censure; charge; complaint; condemnation; count; damnation; denunciation; implication; imputation; indictment; information; innuendo; insinuation; lawsuit; plaint; presentment; prosecution; reprehension; reproach; stricture; suit; taxing