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trial Noun

— A trial is a meeting in court with a judge where two sides explain their positions and the judge or jury makes a decision. He was taken to jail to await trial for murder. Jury selection in the trial began today. He's spending all that money on lawyers defending him at trial. His criminal trial is set to begin Monday. He was charged with murder and went on trial last week. Can a black man get a fair trial in Canada? The judge ruled that the trial would proceed on schedule. I am likely to be a witness in this trial. She will have to be back in court to stand trial again in about eight months. — A trial is a test to see if something works or not, especially in science. Several randomized clinical trials have shown that aspirin may reduce the risk of cancer. In at least one large controlled trial, researchers found no positive effect for the drug. Dr. Finkel is helping conduct the clinical trial. — Trial and error is the process of trying things and making mistakes as you learn something. There is some trial and error to finding the right solution. — A trial is a competition where the winners are chosen to move on to higher level competitions. She finishes in the top three at the Olympic trials in Toronto. — A trial is a difficult experience.

trial Verb

— If you trial something, you test it to see if it works, especially in science.

trial

— noun (= test) the act of testing something in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately he called each flip of the coin a new trial — noun trying something to find out about it a sample for ten days free trial a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain — noun (= test) the act of undergoing testing he survived the great test of battle candidates must compete in a trial of skill — noun (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial — noun (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications the trials for the semifinals began yesterday — noun (= tribulation, visitation) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him life is full of tribulations a visitation of the plague

Synonyms trial synonyms

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Topics trial topics

What do people use trial to talk about?
Social behavior Law

Court of law

Conjugation trial conjugation

How do you conjugate trial?

trial · verb

Examples trial examples

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Simple sentences

That man is going on trial next week.
That man is on trial for the murder of a little girl.
We learn by trial and error.
The truth finally came out at his trial.
He decided to put the murder trial first in the evening news.
She went on trial charged with murdering her husband.
The accused thief is on trial now.
Many newspaper reporters attended the trial.
The witness did not seem nervous when he spoke at the trial.
Who is the plaintiff in this trial?
The trial went on day after day.
This is a hearing, not a trial.
The serial killer was cold and distant during his trial, and appeared unaffected by the fact that he had murdered so many people.
Finding a solution that worked was a process of trial and error.
The murderer is now on trial.
The trial is not open to the public.
Through trial and error, he found the right answer by chance.
The long voyage was a trial for us.
The trial lawyers couldn't get past the Mafia leader's stonewalling tactics.
After the trial, they freed the prisoners.
When criminal cases come to trial, it is common for twelve jurors to serve on the jury.
In 1632, Galileo published a book that said the Earth orbited the Sun. The Catholic Church arrested him and put him on trial.
This trial is guilty of wasting my time; the verdict is therefore guilty.

Movie subtitles

Threatening the Reaper and acting like that. there will be no trial, and will instantly be brought to hell.
He must be brought back to the States to stand trial for the bribes he took, a charge Philanthropy is now capable of proving.
I will now illustrate a trial for witchcraft from beginning to end taking place at the time when the Pope sent traveling inquisition priests out to Germany.
The day of the trial.
The posthumous trial of King Amenes.
The trial opened before the county court of Bourges.
You'll have to buy your own camera before they'll give you a trial here.
That has nothing to do with this trial.
Helius sent the unmanned trial rocket H.32, filled with magnesium, moonward - the explosion of which, upon impact, was viewed and photographed from the earth!
They have his trial!
YOU'RE ON TRIAL, YOU CAN'T.
Well, I start the Riordan trial Monday.
As far as you're concerned, this trial is over.
This presumption remains with the defendant throughout the trial.
Joan of Arc, the trial that ended in her death.
New approaches included a treatment by Richard Schayer, which has a scientist render his mutilated assistant invisible and later stand trial for a murder committed by the assistant.
How long has this trial been going on?
The trial is opened again.
They can't bring him to trial any too quickly to suit me.
I'll give them the chance they didn't give me. They'll get a legal trial in a legal courtroom.
You can't bring a town full of John Does to trial just to pull yourself to heaven on a publicity stunt.
John Doe is not going to trial, Will but 22 citizens of Strand who I can prove are guilty of murder in the first degree.
Every decent person in the country feels the importance of this case. The nation is hanging on the outcome of this trial.
American democracy and its system of fair play for the rights of individuals under the law is on trial here, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
As counsel for these defendants, Your Honor ladies and gentlemen of the jury I must point out that my clients are not on trial for treason against any philosophy of government as our esteemed district attorney seems to think. They're on trial for murder.
Using the diplomatic practice to say that the United States requests a bail on John Mayer, is a disrespectful move, but it's not like he isn't getting a trial.
A bail on John Mayer will have a big influence on the trial. He'll definitely escape to the third country during his bail.
At the end of the trial we'll be able to pay back these couple Francs with our reward.
The trial is over!
You coming to my trial tomorrow?
Remember what he said at the trial?
I can't do that until after the trial.
I warn you, if this case comes to trial, it will be before a French court.
I mean, my dear wife has and much as I dislike discussing it in this hour of our trial I believe the Doctor is right.
And in the morning he went away, and I never saw him again till that day at the trial.
The State's behavior during this trial has turned it into a travesty of justice.
Sign a confession that I accused you falsely at the trial?

News and current affairs

Major traffickers never come to trial because judges are bribed or intimidated.
The confused reaction to this verdict should, perhaps, give pause to all those who think that putting the past on trial is a straightforward thing.
Within days, Stanculescu was among those masterminding the show-trial of the Ceausescus which ended with their being sentenced to death and executed on the spot.
A big part of public opinion seems to be behind him, believing his trial politically motivated.
Stanculescu did just that in 1989 at Timisoara, and he did so again, a few days later, at Ceausescu's trial.
But his half-brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.
And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.
Above all, the rest of the world has looked on with alarm as the US holds more than 600 men at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without access to family or counsel, and without prospect of an impartial hearing or trial.
None of them has ever been put on trial.
If there are any human rights at all, the right not to be locked up indefinitely without trial is surely one of them.
As matters currently stand, there is no mechanism for bringing Saddam Hussein to trial.
Milosevic's extradition to face charges of war crimes before the Hague Tribunal--a trial that has proceeded without incident in Serbia--was also peaceful.
Two years ago, Prof. Ibrahim, together with practically all of the Ibn-Khaldun Institute staff, were arrested and put on trial before a State Security Court on trumped up charges.
After diplomatic pressure was applied by the United States (through his American-born wife, Prof. Ibrahim holds US citizenship) and the EU, he was granted a re-trial.
Similarly, regardless of the outcome of DSK's trial in New York, the case might represent a turning point in the treatment of women in Europe.
For not just Ibrahim, but the values that the EU professes to uphold, have been on trial in Egypt, and they have been mocked by the Mubarak's regime idea of justice.
Generals ordered to use chemical weapons would have to reckon with the prospect that the regime could, actually, fall, and that they then might find themselves on trial for war crimes.
Those denouncing the attempt to put Bashir on trial include the large blocs of countries that are members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the African Union, together with such powerful states as China and Russia.
Though he seemed secure at the time, a year and a half later he was sent to The Hague to stand trial.
He had to flee Liberia a few months later and initially received asylum in Nigeria, but is now on trial in The Hague.
The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful. For not just Ibrahim, but the values that the EU professes to uphold, have been on trial in Egypt, and they have been mocked by the Mubarak's regime idea of justice.

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