warrant

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The judge signed an arrest warrant.

While Brother Gerald was explaining how he couldn't sign the warrant papers seeing as how Rosaleen was nearly deaf, I started for the door.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

...these men were IOI credit officers with a valid indenturement arrest warrant for one Bryce Lynch, the occupant of this apartment.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

I think the judge may issue a warrant on this.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

I didn't know what warrants Boris had out on him but though it was worrying to think he'd been arrested, I was a lot more worried that Sascha's people had sent someone else after him.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Only one Questing Beast, you know, so there can't be any question whether she is warrantable or not.†  (source) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

His mother took out a police warrant against him.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

An officer left the War Department and delivered death warrants to the defendants Mary Surratt, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell.†  (source) James L. Swanson, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, 2009

The har-borer keeps them in his horn, to show to his master, and can tell by them whether it is a warrantable beast or otherwise, and what state it is in.†  (source) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

Mockingly quoting the warrant: "For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies."  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

Or maybe my behavior warrants a little rebellion.†  (source) Colleen Hoover, Slammed, 2012

The tremendous forest of Sherwood stretched round the tent-forest further than the eye could see—and this was full of wild boars, warrantable stags, outlaws, dragons, and Purple Emperors.†  (source) T. H. White, The Once and Future King, 1939

"Adam," said Larry, "there's a warrant for your arrest."  (source) Eric Blehm, Fearless, 2012

She believes the invasion of privacy is warranted to assist in the battle against terrorists.

Although I think hitting a child would be valid grounds for expulsion in other schools, I agree such extreme measures aren't warranted here.  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

As famous as he was, Halliday's death should have warranted only a brief segment on the evening news, so the unwashed masses could shake their heads in envy when the newscasters announced the obscenely large amount of money that would be doled out to the rich man's heirs.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Did you not think the nature of her injuries warranted immediate medical attention?  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

No matter what Muldoon said, Gennaro suspected him of unwarranted enthusiasm, and hopefulness, and—†  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

This was late, but not late enough to warrant aborting the mission.  (source) Eric Blehm, Fearless, 2012

There had been two dozen fights in grammar school, even more of them in high school, warranting two suspensions and uncounted detentions in spite of his good grades.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an earlier hour than common visiting warrants.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

The attack was so inconsequential, according to the king, that it barely warranted notice.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

He must have been a difficult "role model" for Hester, however, because I think her worshipful love of him—in addition to her constant losses in the daily competitions with her older brothers—simply overwhelmed her, and gave her an unwarranted contempt of my Aunt Martha.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

…Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them by their proper name; but when he talked of her having such a steadiness and regularity of conduct, such a high notion of honour, and such an observance of decorum as might warrant any man in the fullest dependence on her faith and integrity, he expressed what was inspired by the knowledge of her being well principled and religious.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

The first moves of the pavane had to be subtle, neither too much nor too little, but warranting attention.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

The effort of getting dressed warranted nothing less than a Grand Tour, she felt.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

It will rain tonight. I warrant it.

I warrant her a woman of good character.

The company warrants their product.

DYSART: That's an absolutely unwarrantable statement.†  (source) Peter Shaffer, Equus, 1973

We do know in part what Mr. Ewell did: he did what any God-fearing, persevering, respectable white man would do under the circumstances— he swore out a warrant, no doubt signing it with his left hand, and Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses his right hand.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as "irreproachably Americanese."†  (source) J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, 1957

But that trick took 'em to the graveyard, and the gold done us a still bigger kindness; for if the excited fools hadn't let go all holts and made that rush to get a look we'd a slept in our cravats to-night—cravats warranted to WEAR, too—longer than WE'D need 'em.  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

"Oh, aren't you?" said Carrie, with an unwarrantable feeling.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900

I cannot swim a stroke, nor could anyone else on this ship, I warrant, except Nat who was born on the water.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

And thus he looked upon every French aristocrat, who had succeeded in escaping from France, as so much prey of which the guillotine had been unwarrantably cheated.†  (source) Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905

There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge; for wholly forgetting in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

They were generally assumed to be taken up with the legitimate business of courtship and marriage, and interference in such affairs on the part of their natural guardians was considered as unwarrantable as a spectator's suddenly joining in a game.†  (source) Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905

"They're dead now, I'll warrant," said the first.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937