Example sentences for: acquitted

How can you use “acquitted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The councilman was defeated at the polls as a result, but he was acquitted in court.

  • He has also confessed to shooting Vernon E. Jordan, then president of the National Urban League, in 1980, a crime for which he was acquitted in 1982.

  • "CLINTON ACQUITTED DECISIVELY," announced the New York Times . Sunday's talk show pundits scavenged the battlefield, pronouncing Republicans the losers.

  • On the other hand, they risk being victimized by criminals who have been falsely acquitted (or by others who were emboldened to become criminals because of the frequency of false acquittals).

  • How did I manage to miss the story last month about his paying $2,500 to 11 of the 12 jurors who acquitted him of tax fraud?


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