Sentence examples for bailiff a from inspiring English sources

He took a bailiff, a locksmith, the apartment's owner and a prospective tenant hostage when they appeared at his front door.

Bailiff, a minor court official with police authority to protect the court while in session and with power to serve and execute legal process.

Police officers were investigating the first bomb when the second and more powerful bomb exploded, killing two police officers and one court bailiff, a police spokeswoman said.

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The bailiff, a stocky young woman with twists, went out to bring in the defendant, a 17-year-old in a fleece jacket named Travon, and his mother, who walks with a cane.

"Sansho the Bailiff," a 1954 film that depicts slavery as a moral canker in eleventh-century Japan, is both a lament for a feudal past and a call for modern democratization.

Unequipped to deal with the dangers he faces — scorching sun, dehydration, and "the bailiff," an elegantly sadistic official from the village who's bent on tracking him down — the boy is taken under the wing of an old goatherd.

In the second Slough case, a bailiff seized a doormat and charged a man, who had outstanding council tax bills, £230 for the visit and seizure.

Having a good degree and wanting to earn some money in a challenging environment, I became a bailiff for a while.

A bailiff locked a set of handcuffs on his wrists, with a loud, ratcheting sound.

However, later that morning a bailiff put a letter through my door saying they were seizing my car, a Jaguar.