declare sb guilty
Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words
To announce officially that someone is guilty.
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- The jury declared him guilty of murder after a long deliberation.
- If the evidence is conclusive, the judge will have no choice but to declare the defendant guilty.
- The court is expected to declare the corporation guilty of environmental violations.
- Historically, military tribunals could declare a soldier guilty without a full public trial.
- He was formally declared guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison.
- Public opinion had already declared her guilty long before the verdict was announced.
- The ethics committee declared the official guilty of misconduct.
- Despite his claims of innocence, the panel declared him guilty based on the presented facts.
- The international court will soon declare the captured warlord guilty of war crimes.
- It is a solemn moment when a judge must declare someone guilty.