Sentence examples for stand guilty from inspiring English sources

"stand guilty" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an idiomatic expression that can be used to describe someone admitting they are guilty of a crime or other infraction. For example: After the evidence was presented, the defendant stood guilty of the charge of embezzlement.

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He's a hope-monger.' Well, I stand guilty as charged.

Both countries, he insists, stand guilty of "enormous ingratitude".

Now Geldof et al would stand guilty of that truly heinous crime: reinforcing "white saviour" stereotypes.

Nonetheless, in such cases, it must stand guilty at least of sublime ignorance.

There are actual people involved here, and because of the supposed actions of a few, all the residents of 400 Memorial Dr. stand guilty of this hate crime.

Thus, Varuna is a judge before whom a mortal may stand guilty, while Indra is a king who may support a mortal monarch.

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For that, they say, he stands guilty of heresy and idolatry.

It suggests it is she, not her opponents, who stands guilty of allowing dogma and ideology to get in the way of addressing social inequity.

Many listeners began attempting to parse the inconsistencies in the prosecution and his defense themselves, in an attempt to assess whether Syed stands guilty or not.

The Bush administration stands guilty of an extraordinary act of imperial overreach which has left the US more internationally isolated than ever before, seriously stretched financially, and guilty of neglect in east Asia and elsewhere.

For now, though, he stands guilty of the murder of 270 people in December 1988 and has served only a third of the 27-year sentence that was handed down.

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