How to Use accuse in a Sentence

accuse

verb
Definition of accusenext
Synonyms for accusenext
  • No one will accuse the name of being inaccurate — or creative, for that matter.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Time will tell, but after two decades of mostly mediocrity, nobody can accuse team owner Peter Seidler of not spending to win.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 12 Dec. 2022
  • DeSantis well understands that the best way to excuse his malfeasance is to accuse others of malfeasance of their own, evidence be damned.
    — Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
  • More than nine months later, social media users continue to accuse Ukraine of harboring Nazi ideology.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The commissioner also banned the teen from communicating with another boy who was accused of arson in juvenile court for the barn fire but denied the accusations.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In the film, Sandra is accused of pushing her husband to his death.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023
  • After all, we might be accused of the dreaded sin of laziness!
    — Susan Spencer, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024
  • Sometimes the Jews are accused of not having any power.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024
  • That suit accused the city of not only knowing about but helping to create the failures that caused the flooding.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2024
  • The man accused of running over Lozano Bracho is named Hamzeh Alwawi.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But the people in his car were accused of trying to assassinate Maduro with a drone.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Tepco, which has in the past been accused of a lack of transparency, has vowed to put safety first and stop the discharges if problems arise.
    — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Reacting to the possible dismissal of the charge, Christie accused the president and Democrats of hypocrisy.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • In both races, the challengers have accused the incumbents of misleading the voters.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
  • Now, over two years later — and eight months after he was released from prison — the same man has been accused of raping a woman.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 9 May 2024
  • Trump, Trump Media and Digital World have not been accused of wrongdoing in the case.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t to accuse Gayot of getting into the business of knockoffs.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2023
  • At the time of the shooting, Thompson had been charged with assault of a family member, who accused him of choking her in March.
    — Chron, 15 May 2023
  • In the proceeding months, they were accused in a legal complaint of grooming a minor.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 31 May 2023
  • The two women served as 2020 election workers in Georgia, and Giuliani falsely accused them for months of fraud.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Georgia case represents the fourth court case against Trump, who is being accused of trying to steal the state's 16 Electoral College votes.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • No one has accused Gay or Oxman of stealing data or high-level ideas.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • But Fain’s comments Friday took the claims a step further, accusing Tavares of price gouging consumers in the name of profits.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • He was accused of conspiring with drug cartels to move more than 400 tons of cocaine toward the United States.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Momeni, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, is accused of stabbing Lee to death on a dark downtown street early in the morning of April 4.
    — Joel Rosenblatt, Fortune, 30 May 2023
  • The narcissist will begin to see their partner as flawed and accuse them of not being the perfect partner they were supposed to be.
    — Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Within the first hour of the fifth debate both had accused one another of lying several times.
    — WSJ, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Per the press release, 27-year-old Rogelio Diaz is accused of torturing the cat on April 5.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The group also is accused of vandalism during an event at the Rutgers Business School.
    — Noah Pransky, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Human Rights Watch has also accused the Israeli government of allowing these kinds of practices.
    — Abeer Salman, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024

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