All 4 Uses of
indict
in
1st to Die, by Patterson
- But listening to her cogently mapping out what we needed to indict, a tantalizing thought took hold of me.†
p. 243.7 *
- "Cleveland's ready to indict," I told them.†
p. 282.1
- All you needed to know about Jill was that as a third-year prosecutor, it was she who had tried the La Frade case, when the mayor's old law partner was indicted on a RICO charge for influence peddling.†
p. 239.7
- "Tomorrow, I'm going to the district attorney for an indictment," McBride announced.†
p. 281.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(indict as in: indicted by the grand jury) formally charge with a crime
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(2)
(indict as in: indicted the idea as ridiculous) to criticize or condemn