Sample Sentences for

acquit

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She was acquitted of all charges.

Despite acquittal on criminal charges, controversy remains and civil charges may be pending.

"You think they'll acquit him that fast?" asked Jem.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Then he said I was acquitted and the whole case was closed.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

After all, people don't like a Coroner's Inquest, even if the Coroner did acquit me of all blame!  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

Related words: absolution , acquittal, mercy.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

"You mean he's more frightened of acquitting than convicting, because if he acquits he'll lose his job," said Lesley with a clever little laugh.  (source) E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

The inaugural edition of the Review displayed a banner headline: jury acquits seattle's gill.†  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995

"Well that's enough," said K., "or have you heard of any acquittals that happened earlier?"  (source) Franz Kafka, The Trial, 1925

Most people don't have to be acquitted of murder to be accepted.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

This, madam, is a faithful narrative of every event in which we have been concerned together; and if you do not absolutely reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth of cruelty towards Mr. Wickham.  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

Frankly, I don't see how we can vote for acquittal.  (source) Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men, 1955

You couldn't bounce any jury into acquitting him.  (source) Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders, 1936

She acquitted herself well at the interview.

I had never before seen a centaur hang hooves on a tubular crest, but Chiron acquitted himself well.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle, 2016

"Devan acquitted himself well," he said as they went.  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, 1999

We just finished that ASW exercise south of Bermuda, and the Brits acquitted themselves well.  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

It was as if she wanted something from him, as if she wanted him to prove …. what, he knew not, but he was determined to acquit himself as well as he could.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Inheritance, 2011

Maia especially was acquitting herself well.  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels, 2011

I have never seen Fanny dance since she was a little girl; but I trust we shall both think she acquits herself like a gentlewoman when we do see her, which, perhaps, we may have an opportunity of doing ere long.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

He's managed to get through his little talk to the Tuesday group, and feels he's acquitted himself well enough.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

For such reasons, I was very glad when ten o'clock came and we started for Miss Havisham's; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the manner in which I should acquit myself under that lady's roof.  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

...but her husband's way of commenting on the strangely impressive objects around them had begun to affect her with a sort of mental shiver: he had perhaps the best intention of acquitting himself worthily, but only of acquitting himself.  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

They were veterans now, veterans of brief service, but veterans just the same, and they had acquitted themselves well.  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

She was not abnormally deficient, and she mustered learning enough to acquit herself respectably in conversation with her contemporaries, among whom it must be avowed, however, that she occupied a secondary place.  (source) Henry James, Washington Square, 1880

After all that I said to her as we came along, I thought she would have behaved better; I told her how much might depend upon her acquitting herself well at first.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

I cannot acquit him of that duty; nor could I think well of the man who should omit an occasion of testifying his respect towards anybody connected with the family.  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

Fanny's disposition was such that she could never even think of her aunt Norris in the meagreness and cheerlessness of her own small house, without reproaching herself for some little want of attention to her when they had been last together; much less could her feelings acquit her of having done and said and thought everything by William that was due to him for a whole fortnight.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Mr. Crawford would have fully acquitted her conduct in refusing him; but this, though most material to herself, would be poor consolation to Sir Thomas.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814