Sample Sentences for
docket
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  • The court clerk added the new case to the docket for next week.
    docket = list of cases
  • The article summarizes this year's Supreme Court docket.
    docket = official schedule (of cases)
  • Without plea bargaining, there would be no hope of keeping up with the docket.
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  • The judge rearranged her docket in order to have these last days free.  (source)
    docket = cases to be tried in court or items to discuss
  • Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.†  (source)
  • He tried to impose order now on the random movement before him, and almost succeeded: marshaling centers, warrant officers behind makeshift desks, rubber stamps and dockets, roped-off lines toward the waiting boats; hectoring sergeants, tedious queues around mobile canteens.†  (source)
  • For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.†  (source)
  • And, of course, our Alabama docket had never been more jammed or demanding.†  (source)
  • The pigeon-holes were docketed, 'letters unanswered', 'letters-to-keep', 'household', 'estate', 'menus', 'miscellaneous', 'addresses'; each ticket written in that same scrawling pointed hand that I knew already.†  (source)
  • The box of pawn tickets at his elbow had just been rifled and he took up idly one after another in his greasy fingers the blue and white dockets, scrawled and sanded and creased and bearing the name of the pledger as Daly or MacEvoy.†  (source)
  • I found myself automatically docketing and labelling each man as he was introduced to me, by the run of his features and by the first words that he spoke.†  (source)
  • But next on the docket was a subject that proved more contentious.†  (source)
  • Its contents, I need hardly say, were all neatly docketed and pigeonholed so that he was able at once to lay his hand upon the paper he wanted.†  (source)
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