How to Use impanel in a Sentence

impanel

verb
  • Many more grand juries need to be impaneled and empowered to find and declare the truth.
    — WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
  • The judges said Morales had not provided any reason to impanel a grand jury.
    — Associated Press, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • Well, Sean, hopefully it's being fixed with a grand jury being impaneled.
    — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2018
  • But O’Neill appeared certain that at least one facet of the case would remain the same – his ability to impanel a fair jury.
    — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Pecker was one of the first witnesses the grand jury called in January, shortly after it was impaneled.
    — Nicholas Reimann, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Called out by the judge In January, a jury was impaneled to hear the case against Timmons and Rainey.
    — Mensah M. Dean, Philly.com, 29 May 2018
  • Does the decision to impanel a grand jury relates to that idea of rebuilding community trust?
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • She was impaneled as an alternate in an assault case, where the defendant was an African American man.
    — John Horn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • While some other 9th Circuit judges have said the president’s order is on sound legal ground, they were not impaneled on either case.
    — Lee Ross, Fox News, 15 May 2017
  • Those picked for grand juries are impaneled for months and meet periodically throughout that period.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • On Wallace’s second day of freedom, the state impanelled a grand jury, which reindicted him for Miller’s murder.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • The probe was disclosed in open court by a lawyer representing a witness who was summoned to appear before a grand jury impaneled to review the evidence.
    — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 4 July 2017
  • The move gives Durham the power to subpoena witnesses and documents and to impanel a grand jury that could bring criminal charges.
    — Paula Reid, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The request to impanel such a grand jury must be approved by a majority of the judges on the county’s superior court, who are elected in nonpartisan races.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The Wall Street Journal earlier reported a grand jury was impaneled.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2017
  • That includes the power to compel testimony from witnesses and to impanel a grand jury to consider criminal charges.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller impaneled a grand jury.
    — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Reports that Mueller recently impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington suggest Trump’s threats had no effect on him.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The prosecutor’s request to impanel such a grand jury had to be approved by a majority of the judges on the county’s superior court, who are elected in nonpartisan races.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • There has not been an investigative committee impaneled in the General Assembly in over 20 years.
    — Steve Arentz, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
  • New York prosecutors plan to impanel a grand jury in the coming weeks to hear evidence against Durst in the disappearance of Kathie Durst.
    — Fox News, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The grand jury was impaneled after the Justice Department's fraud unit started an investigation.
    — Jef Feeley, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • The review upgraded into a criminal investigation in the fall, allowing Durham the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The review upgraded into a criminal investigation in the fall, allowing Durham the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The prosecutor also apparently asked grand jurors who did not support the government's case to not come back, and allegedly had improper contact with those impaneled outside the grand jury room.
    — Hannah Meisel, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • The prosecutor also apparently asked grand jurors who did not support the government's case to not come back, and allegedly had improper contact with those impaneled outside the grand jury room.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • The Times reported that the change in status gives Durham the power to subpoena witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury and to file criminal charges.
    — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2019
  • That would mean that Willis or other DAs would have to impanel a grand jury from beyond their territories, drawing in more residents from rural, conservative corners of the state.
    — Christian Boone, ajc, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The move gives the prosecutor running it, John Durham, the power to subpoena witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury, and to file criminal charges.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The review upgraded into a criminal investigation in the fall, giving the prosecutor the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments, and is expected to wrap up sometime in the summer.
    — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2020

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