arraignin a sentence
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The prisoner was duly arraigned, and his plea again demanded.† (source)
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...I might justly be arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods...† (source)
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Judge Cormier was already in her robe, ready to start the arraignment. (source)arraignment = court proceeding in which a defendant responds to legal charges
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We hadn't gotten together since Maureen's arraignment.† (source)arraignment = a court proceeding in which a defendant responds to legal charges (usually by pleading guilty or not guilty)
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The last time Cole had seen him, the judge had been wearing a black robe at the arraignment hearing in juvenile court when Cole first pleaded guilty.† (source)
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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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Law demands arraignment within forty-eight hours.† (source)arraignment = a court proceeding in which a defendant responds to legal charges (usually by pleading guilty or not guilty)
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You're not going to be able to go back to New York, at least until you're arraigned next week.† (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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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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Alex scanned the files she needed for that morning's run of arraignments.† (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)arraignable = able to be called before a courtstandard 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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Soon after the original arraignment of Smith and Hickock, their advocates appeared before Judge Tate to argue a motion urging comprehensive psychiatric examinations for the accused.† (source)arraignment = a court proceeding in which a defendant responds to legal charges (usually by pleading guilty or not guilty)
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Monday, Minerva and I got arraigned.† (source)
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