Sample Sentences for
arraign
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    Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night — of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal; — I pronounced judgment to this effect: That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.†  (source)
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    The law says they have to arraign you on these charges as soon as possible.†  (source)
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    He's scheduled for arraignment first thing in the morning.†  (source)
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    She could see him tomorrow, before the arraignment.†  (source)
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    Monday, Minerva and I got arraigned.†  (source)
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    I admit it, and I don't arraign him because he slaughters the queen's English; he can't help it.†  (source)
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    There were seventy arraignments scheduled for that morning, and the courtroom was packed.†  (source)
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    John Claggart, the ship's Master-at-arms, discovering that some sort of plot was incipient among an inferior section of the ship's company, and that the ringleader was one William Budd; he, Claggart, in the act of arraigning the man before the Captain was vindictively stabbed to the heart by the suddenly drawn sheath-knife of Budd.†  (source)
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    He tried to drink, and revel, and swear away the memory; but often, in the deep night, whose solemn stillness arraigns the bad soul in forced communion with herself, he had seen that pale mother rising by his bedside, and felt the soft twining of that hair around his fingers, till the cold sweat would roll down his face, and he would spring from his bed in horror.†  (source)
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    Those, however, of our congregation, who considered themselves as orthodox Presbyterians, disapprov'd his doctrine, and were join'd by most of the old clergy, who arraign'd him of heterodoxy before the synod, in order to have him silenc'd.†  (source)
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    A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in arraignable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    She showed up early at Richie's arraignment the next day and took a seat right behind the defense table.†  (source)
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    Zeitoun learned that most of those brought to Camp Greyhound had been arraigned in a more or less standard fashion.†  (source)
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