Sentences with acquit
ac·quit
A a - Mr Ling was acquitted of disorderly behaviour by magistrates. [be VERB-ed + of]
- Most officers and men acquitted themselves well throughout the action. [V pron-refl adv]
- It can be used to acquit the innocent, but police say it can also exert great power over the guilty.
- Nor does it acquit us of the moral responsibility to acknowledge what was done.
- They acquitted him of the crime. The jury acquitted her, but I still think she's guilty.
- He acquitted himself well in battle.
- He'd acquit himself very well but with all the time he's spent on the sidelines.
- Dr Susan Carey, had owed him money under a loan agreement and the judge directed the jury to acquit him on four deception charges.
- He acquitted himself of suspicion.
- The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.
- Whether juries would acquit people of anything because manslaughter gives them a halfway house.
- But a jury did not believe her, or doubted her enough to acquit the accused, and that has left her angry and wounded.
- The jury acquitted the prisoner of the charge.
- The soldier acquitted himself well in battle. The orator acquitted himself very poorly.