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

solicitor as in:  the solicitor prepared for a trial

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Before signing the contract, she asked her solicitor to review the terms carefully.
solicitor = lawyer
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    Her solicitor advised her to settle the dispute out of court to avoid a lengthy legal battle.
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    There was a brown book and some yellow tablets on the solicitor's table; Atticus's was bare.  (source)
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    And don't worry, I'll go with you to see your solicitor, it'll all be fine.  (source)
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    Cecilia said in a quiet level voice, "When I got your letter I went to see a solicitor."  (source)
    solicitor = lawyer
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    Solicitors.†  (source)
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    The enclosed letter was on the stationery of a Jeremy S. MacMillan, Solicitor.  (source)
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    That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.†  (source)
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    DUDARD: You need to get a solicitor's advice.  (source)
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    Maynard & Cole were the defending solicitors.†  (source)
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    Beside them, on the deputy's right, was their attorney, the finest native solicitor Sykes could persuade to advise the Pritchards in the event that the Crown brought a case against them as accessories to terrorism.  (source)
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    The solicitors arrived at this moment and arranged their scrawled papers on the velvet cloth embroidered with gold which covered the table prepared for the signature; it was a gilt table supported on lions' claws.†  (source)
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    A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world, and would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.†  (source)
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    They consisted mainly of an exchange of letters between Count Olenski's solicitors and a French legal firm to whom the Countess had applied for the settlement of her financial situation.†  (source)
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solicitor as in:  a door-to-door solicitor

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    The telephone solicitor convinced me to switch internet providers.
    solicitor = salesperson
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    Underneath, stenciled on the glass doors: NO SOLICITORS.  (source)
    SOLICITORS = salespeople
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    Dialing the number, I tried to tell myself she probably wouldn't pick up (so many solicitors and bill collectors phoned us, all the time, that she seldom took calls from numbers she didn't recognize).  (source)
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    It's probably just a solicitor or something.  (source)
    solicitor = salesperson
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    Instead the mind flashes bits and pieces of childhood experiences, past reading, every movie the writer/creator has ever seen, last week's argument with a phone solicitor—in short, everything that lurks in the recesses of the mind.  (source)
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