How to Use indictable in a Sentence

indictable

adjective
  • Taking your shoes off an airplane should be an indictable offense.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Yet all the evidence amounted to little in the way of serious indictable crimes.
    — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But legal scholars and Democrats are decrying the claim that an impeachable offense must be an indictable crime.
    — Eric Tucker, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The evidence, which showed bad deeds, but not necessarily indictable offenses, predictably didn’t measure up to the hype.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • Chaudhary is charged with theft, two counts of possession of property obtained by crime, and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.
    — Ahmad Mukhtar, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • All agree that impeachment—which, if successful, turns a sitting president into an indictable ex-president—resolves the issue.
    — Tom Ginsburg, Fortune, 22 May 2018
  • But the ethical standard for federal judges is (thankfully) not everything short of indictable corruption.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Gonzalez has also been taken to task for failing to prosecute indictable offenses, including a murder case and a drug trafficking case.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2023
  • What would normally be regarded as a technical violation (there are no rules defining such things), may in his or her small world assume the proportions of an indictable offense.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
  • He is charged with theft over $5,000, two counts of possession of property obtained by crime and conspiracy to commit an indictable offense.
    — Josh Margolin, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group is an indictable offence with a maximum sentence of 10 years.
    — Paula Newton, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Brian Houston, who was charged in Sydney in August with concealing a serious indictable offense, said he had already been told to step aside from all Hillsong boards.
    — NBC News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • He was charged with one count each of murder (domestic violence) and unlawful possession of weapons used to commit indictable offense (domestic violence), according to the police release.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Two investigations failed to find any indictable offenses connected to de Blasio’s fund-raising operation but left the impression that money bought access to the mayor.
    — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Even if the House committee reports no indictable offenses, other investigations and lawsuits involving him may well indict, convict, and/or bankrupt him.
    — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 16 June 2022
  • At his July 5 news conference, Comey pilloried Hillary Clinton for her email practices and then concluded that her recklessness didn’t rise to the level of an indictable crime.
    — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
  • This is the moment when my brother enters the assembling facts not only as an indictable accomplice but as the spontaneous mastermind—the El Capo—of a clay-stealing cartel consisting of himself and four ten-year-olds.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Trump has already – and repeatedly – alleged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is, like Noriega, not the head of state of his own country and therefore indictable.
    — Alan McPherson, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2025
  • They were detained on suspicion of sedition under the 2024 national security law and of dealing with assets known or believed to represent proceeds of indictable offense under a separate law.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • Never mind the fact that backing the party’s mercurial, irrational, and eminently indictable leader requires contorting oneself into all manner of ridiculous and humiliating poses.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • State Police Superintendent Patrick Callahan reported 70 compliance issues resulting in 34 indictable offenses.
    — Kim Jarrett, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2020

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