Sentences with accuse
ac·cuse
A a - He was accusing my mum of having an affair with another man. [VERB noun + of]
- Her assistant was accused of theft and fraud by the police. [be VERB-ed + of]
- If you're going to accuse Michelle Leslie of profiting from her crime.
- Playing the nationalist card, Indonesian MPs and newspapers accuse Australia of plotting to engineer Papuan independence.
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
- He accused him of murder.
- Kelsey Munro You could not accuse Clive Hamilton of peddling false hope.
- Accuse means to find fault for offenses of varying gravity [to accuse someone of murder, carelessness, etc.]; to charge is to make an accusation of a legal or formal nature [the police charged her with jaywalking]; indict describes the action of a grand jury and means to find a case against a person and order the person to be brought to trial; , arraign means to call a person before a court to be informed of pending charges; , impeach means to charge a public official with misconduct in office, but in nonlegal usage means to challenge a person's motives, etc.