Sample Sentences for
bailiff
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  • The courtroom was packed, and the bailiff brought the court to order as the judge walked in.  (source)
  • She was fetched from a witness room and led to the stand by a bailiff.  (source)
  • "Please rise," the bailiff requested.  (source)
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  • The court bailiff carried the sealed verdicts to the bench.  (source)
    bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
  • The clerk called Peter's case, and two bailiffs led him through a doorway.  (source)
    bailiffs = court officers responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of prisoners while in court
  • The bailiff took Angel by the arm and led her toward the door.  (source)
    bailiff = court officer responsible for keeping order in the court
  • She has experience at it, at standing before judges and bailiffs, pleading.†  (source)
  • The judge asked that Mrs. Henderson be subpoenaed, and when Momma arrived and said she was Mrs. Henderson, the judge, the bailiff and other whites in the audience laughed.  (source)
  • True, some slaveowners and their overseers were brutal and cruel, but the same was true of some Westerosi lords and their stewards and bailiffs.†  (source)
  • Her wallet and sweatshirt were taken from her—the bailiff told Luma she couldn't wear the garment in the jail because it might be contaminated with lice.  (source)
  • There, disguised under other names, and concealed under other costumes, are police agents, magistrates, attorneys-general, and bailiffs.†  (source)
  • We were squeezed through the crowd and ushered to one of the areas in front, near the bailiff.†  (source)
  • I see her going to the town with her basket; and Arthur Davies goes with her; I see her knitting on the hall step while we play cricket; I see her stretching her arms out to Mrs Williams when the bailiffs took possession of their house and the Captain stood at the window bawling and shying jugs, basins, chamber pots onto the gravel — "Come to us, Mrs Williams"; "No, Mrs Stephen," sobbed Mrs Williams, "I will not leave my husband."†  (source)
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