Sample Sentences for
warrant
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

warrant as in:  has a warrant to...

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Do you have a search warrant?
warrant = document giving the right to do the thing just mentioned
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    The judge signed an arrest warrant.
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
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    "By hiding, we seal our death warrant," Moshe said.  (source)
    warrant = figuratively, a document granting the right to kill someone
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    "Adam," said Larry, "there's a warrant for your arrest."  (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
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    ...these men were IOI credit officers with a valid indenturement arrest warrant for one Bryce Lynch, the occupant of this apartment.  (source)
    warrant = document granting a right (in this case, to arrest)
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    I keep wondering if that warrants a special date, just for him.†  (source)
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    Only one Questing Beast, you know, so there can't be any question whether she is warrantable or not.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    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)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
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    Or maybe my behavior warrants a little rebellion.†  (source)
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    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)
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    I think the judge may issue a warrant on this.  (source)
    warrant = a document granting the right to do something
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    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)
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    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)
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    Mockingly quoting the warrant: "For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies."  (source)
    warrant = document authorizing arrest
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warrant as in:  serious enough to warrant surgery

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The company's reputation for high-quality products is no longer warranted.
warranted = justified (reasonable)
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    She believes the invasion of privacy is warranted to assist in the battle against terrorists.
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    This was late, but not late enough to warrant aborting the mission.  (source)
    warrant = justify
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    Did you not think the nature of her injuries warranted immediate medical attention?  (source)
    warranted = justified
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    The attack was so inconsequential, according to the king, that it barely warranted notice.  (source)
    warranted = justified or deserved
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    Sadly, not every Everest lawsuit is unwarranted.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwarranted means not and reverses the meaning of warranted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant.  (source)
    warrant = make reasonable
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    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)
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    Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an earlier hour than common visiting warrants.  (source)
    warrants = makes reasonable
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    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)
    warranted = justified
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    No matter what Muldoon said, Gennaro suspected him of unwarranted enthusiasm, and hopefulness, and—†  (source)
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    This would warrant sending a squadron's strike force, the bulk of Adam's teammates based nearby, to go in and get him, but was the risk worth the reward?  (source)
    warrant = make reasonable
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    The first moves of the pavane had to be subtle, neither too much nor too little, but warranting attention.†  (source)
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    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)
    warranted = justified
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warrant as in:  I warrant it

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I warrant the material is original.
warrant = promise
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    It will rain tonight. I warrant it.
    warrant = am certain of
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    I warrant her a woman of good character.
    warrant = am certain
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    The company warrants their product.
    warrants = guarantees
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    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)
    warrant = document stating that something happened
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    or else I shall be obliged to inform my master of your designs; and he'll take measures to secure his house and its inmates from any such unwarrantable intrusions!'†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwarrantable means not and reverses the meaning of warrantable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    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)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwarrantably means not and reverses the meaning of warrantably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    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)
    warranted = guaranteed
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    I cannot swim a stroke, nor could anyone else on this ship, I warrant, except Nat who was born on the water.  (source)
    warrant = guarantee (assure you)
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    DYSART: That's an absolutely unwarrantable statement.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
    warranted = guaranteed
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    "They're dead now, I'll warrant," said the first.  (source)
    warrant = guarantee (assure you)
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    "Oh, aren't you?" said Carrie, with an unwarrantable feeling.†  (source)
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