Sentence examples for were on trial from inspiring English sources

While the men were on trial in September 2007, one of them jumped bail and disappeared.

In the Bell case, two of the detectives who were on trial are black, including the one who fired first.

Ten people were on trial.

The leaders of the military junta were on trial for human-rights abuses.

She was also a radical in America when communists were on trial.

"It felt like we were on trial as much as Emre was," he said.

Now, at Super Bowl XXXV, it's as if Lewis were on trial again.

Several of Enron's leading executives were on trial at the time, for fraud and other crimes.

During our questioning my wife and I both felt as if we were on trial.

One juror thought he looked so disconnected that it was as if he were on trial for shoplifting.

"It's not us that were on trial, it was the system that was on trial," said Mel Reeves, a community activist.