Sentence examples for sheriff from inspiring English sources

"sheriff" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an elected county law enforcement officer who is responsible for maintaining public safety and enforcing the law. Example sentence: The sheriff organized a meeting with local business owners to discuss further safety precautions.

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sheriff

verb

To carry out the duties of a sheriff

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Not so much I shot the sheriff but I did not shoot the deputy as I shot the sheriff, the deputy and the deputy's dog.

In the run up to announcing a legislative programme entirely composed of the sort of things the Sheriff of Nottingham would yell at villagers as threats, he had everybody talking about foxes.

A warrant was issued for the the 29-year-old's arrest on Friday afternoon, Tommy Gage, the Montgomery County sheriff, said in a statement.

The motion pointed specifically to the case of officer William Porter, who had a warrant issued for his arrest at 9.21am, 13 minutes after a sheriff filed an application for a statement of charges against him at a Baltimore district court earlier that morning.

And joke or not, it was hard not to view Truffles On The Nipplesgate as a deliberate upstaging of her rival, a shot over Paltrow's bows that sent out a clear message: yes, you may have spent a proportion of your $29 weekly budget on seven limes, but when it comes to saying idiotic things about food, there's a new sheriff in town, and her website's flogging a wooden egg holder for $68 plus P&P.

Little wonder that most celebrated legendary figure of them all, the scourge of the Sheriff of Nottingham and the leader of Sherwood Forest's Merry Men, was called Robin".

After one of his beatings, she said, he even called the county sheriff himself to prove to her that he could not be stopped.

Nor, I suspect, would Andy Burnham if he hadn't been running to be Labour's post-Miliband sheriff almost non-stop since 2010.

He will appear at Glasgow sheriff court on Friday.

In New Orleans, Blake Arcuri, the lawyer representing the Orleans Parish sheriff, said Durst's transfer was a matter of standard procedure, in the absence of a similar facility in New Orleans itself.

On The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958), a producer asked Harris to raise Jayne Mansfield's plunging neckline to a more modest level.

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