put on trial
Example Sentences
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In 399 BCE, Socrates was put on trial before a jury of some 500 of his fellow Athenians.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Hasina, who was put on trial in absentia, has denied committing crimes against humanity.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
The younger Kadhafi was accused of withholding information about the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Mussa Sadr in Libya, but never put on trial.
From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025
Certainly the good Samaritans must have known the two boatmen were not going to be put on trial, owing to lack of evidence.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
After a while, Washington called in the soldiers and told them to lock Honeyman up until the next day, when he would be put on trial as a spy.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
