Examples of arraign in a Sentence
Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Both will be arraigned at a later date in Brooklyn.
—Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Rozier will attend a hearing in Florida, while Billups will be arraigned in Portland.
—Dan Gallo, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
While on pretrial probation in July, he was arraigned on additional charges of assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Arraign.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arraign. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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arraign
transitive verb
Note: For a person to be formally arraigned, he or she must be called by name before a judge or magistrate. The judge or magistrate makes sure that the defendant is the person named in the complaint, indictment, or information, which is then read to formally notify the defendant of the charges. The defendant may then enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or another plea allowed by law such as nolo contendere. In some cases, as when the defendant is not yet represented by a lawyer, the judge or magistrate may enter a plea of not guilty on the defendant's behalf.
Anglo-French arrainer, from Old French araisnier to address, call to account, from a-, prefix stressing goal of an action + raisnier to speak
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