How to Use stand accused of in a Sentence

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  • Rhodes and the others stand accused of conspiring to use force to oppose the lawful transfer of power to Joe Biden.
    — Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The two stand accused of laundering around $3.6 billion in Bitcoin.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Both groups stand accused of committing atrocities against civilians over the course of the conflict.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Both of them also stand accused of perjury concerning those charges.
    — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Both of them also stand accused of perjury concerning those charges.
    — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • After all, Donald Trump may stand accused of breaking countless laws in these trials, but the laws of physics are beyond even his abilities.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • No quarterback can get too much, just as no quarterback can stand accused of doing too little.
    — Dallas News, 27 July 2022
  • In Ukraine, its cadres — whose ranks include prison recruits — stand accused of horrific abuses against their foes, and sometimes against their own fighters.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In Ukraine, its cadres — whose ranks include prison recruits — stand accused of horrific abuses against their foes, and sometimes against their own fighters.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Rhodes, the founder of the far-right group, and four codefendants stand accused of seditious conspiracy, a broad charge that in this case applies the use of force to resist the peaceful transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In 2017, Myanmar's military, which stand accused of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic group in the west of the country, began seizing control of the amber mines from the indigenous Kachins, adding to the strife.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Al-Bashir's government responded with a campaign of aerial bombings and raids by militias known as Janjaweed, who stand accused of mass killings and rapes.
    — Samy Magdy, Star Tribune, 30 May 2021
  • To win this prize, the Russians stand accused of war crimes, of starving a population, of indiscriminate bombing and civilian killings.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Many in the group comprise those who have done little wrong but stand accused of unproven derelictions of responsibility.
    — Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The party will have positioned itself so that any Republican who tries to do anything constructive will stand accused of selling out.
    — The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
  • Only after passing through to safety did Ira consider that the pro-Russian forces could have taken her or any of the other women away to be raped, as Russian soldiers stand accused of doing elsewhere in Ukraine.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
  • His parents, Ursula Juarez and Jose Cuatro, now stand accused of murdering and torturing him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The forces stand accused of some of the most horrific atrocities carried out in Darfur, including torture, extrajudicial killings and mass rapes, according to the Human Rights Watch.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The forces stand accused of some of the most horrific atrocities carried out in Darfur, including torture, extrajudicial killings and mass rapes, according to the Human Rights Watch.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The defendants stand accused of lying to obtain money using electronic communications (wire fraud) and the U.S. Postal Service (mail fraud).
    — Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In courts across America, when defendants stand accused of a crime, an algorithm crunches through their criminal history and spits out a risk score, meant to help judges decide whether or not they should be kept behind bars until they can be tried.
    — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The three suspects stand accused of using social engineering and other techniques to gain access to internal Twitter systems.
    — Kate Cox and Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 31 July 2020
  • Russian forces stand accused of war crimes, including the intentional targeting of civilians and hospitals.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The generals stand accused of dreadful crimes against the Rohingya Muslim community and other ethnic minority people in our country.
    — Zin Mar Aung, CNN, 1 July 2022
  • All four stand accused of financial wrongdoing, including using NRA funds for family vacations and other private trips, private jets, and expensive meals.
    — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Bannon and Trump stand accused of encouraging or even participating in that insurrection, and what Meadows saw and heard is quite obviously relevant.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Along with the former President himself and two former Trump Organization executives, the brothers stand accused of, among other things, engaging in a fraudulent conspiracy to file false business documents and engage in insurance fraud.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Prosecutors frequently bring cases against former officials who stand accused of mishandling classified information -- but never before has a case been brought against a figure who had declassification authority.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 17 July 2023

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