press charges
Example Sentences
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Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, rightly opened a criminal investigation into the matter and subsequently decided to press charges against five reservists.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
"I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
And when Maggie decides to press charges against Hank and tell her story to the press, the fallout unsurprisingly does not seem great enough.
From Salon • Sep. 25, 2025
A local judge declined to press charges, before a federal judge permitted assault charges to be filed, CBS reports.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025
By then, having consulted her American education, my mother decided it would be cruel to press charges.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
