How to Use the accused in a Sentence

the accused

noun
  • Six of the accused were charged on all three counts.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Six of the accused were charged on all three counts.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Six of the accused were charged on all three counts.
    — ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • All but two of the accused, police said, are from out of state.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
  • All of the accused have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
    — Gerardo Lemos, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Most of the accused have yet to respond publicly to the charges.
    — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • It is not yet known if the accused wrong-way driver is facing charges.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Except, of course, that was never fair to the accused.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • If so, the shame and disgrace will rest with the accusers, not the accused.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • None of the accused have entered formal pleas.
    — Christina Coulter, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The answer is to hear out the accusers and the accused, women and men.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • Two of the accused are German and the third was born in Lebanon.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • An arraignment is when formal charges against the accused are read by the judge.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • And those accusers deserve their day in court and justice just as much as the accused.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • Lawyers for the accused did not respond or declined to comment for this story.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This time, not as a bailiff — but as the accused facing a life sentence if convicted.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The trial of Pierre Laval would be marred by shouts from the jury at the accused.
    — Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
  • When combined with the other charges, the accused could be sentenced to decades behind bars.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 June 2025
  • Opponents have argued that the bill deprives the accused of due process.
    — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The statement did not specify the date of the sentences or whether the accused had been tried en masse.
    — CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • None of the accused has faced more than a single charge, and the longest sentence handed down was three years.
    — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 18 June 2023
  • But many of the accused did not confess, despite the fact that videos of their acts were shown on large screens in the courtroom.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Police did not release the identities of the accused and the results of the case against the.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Ensure fairness for victims and the accused.
    — Jane Harper, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In the French trial, the accused gets to contribute to her own trial a lot more.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Even when the crime scene is full of DNA not belonging to the accused.
    — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • More so to leave people rooting, as many will, for the vindication of the accused.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • There was no reaction from the gallery, packed with supporters of the victim and the accused.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This rubric includes the accused’s prior criminal sentences or time served in jail or prison.
    — Kaitlyn M. Sims, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The plan did not go ahead at the last minute because the accused failed to get the army's commander on board, Gonet said.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2025

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