How to Use counsel in a Sentence

counsel

1 of 2 noun

• All counsel are expected to obey the rules of the court.
• The student sought counsel from her teacher.
• You were unwise to reject my counsel.
• She is serving as counsel for the defendant.
• Chesebro has not been charged with a crime by the special counsel.
  — Robert Costa, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Don’t be afraid to think outside the box, Hurwitz counsels.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
• Given the risk that the wrong people win out in the end, Bevins counsels sobriety.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• There is no timetable for the court to act, but special counsel Jack Smith’s team has strongly pushed for the trial to take place this year.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• The judge argued that Allman and his counsel did not have enough time to review all of the documents.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• The indictments have been charged by a special counsel.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Trump appealed the decision, and special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court last week to expedite the process.
  — Tobi Raji and Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 19 Dec. 2023
• Or might Muir turn to former Stanford coach Mike Montgomery for counsel?
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The city relied on outside legal counsel to defend the case, Elliott added.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• Special counsel Robert Hur is overseeing the case, but Biden is not expected to face any charges.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2023
• There is an important role to be played by the inside man who offers his counsel only in private and does his best to steer the ship of state in the right direction.
  — The Editors, National Review, 7 June 2023
• Neuman, who had been at the Big Ten since 2020 and was also general counsel for the conference, made the announcement on LinkedIn.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
• But before the appellate court judges could hear the case, Smith, the special counsel, asked the Supreme Court to leapfrog the appeals court and decide the immunity issue once and for all.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
• The special counsel then gets 20 minutes, and Trump gets 10 minutes to rebut their arguments.
  — Rachel weiner, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• Try not to involve legal counsel so quickly in disputes.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
• In 2019, a special counsel from the county school district found mismanagement and asked for two of Mason’s board members to step down.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• Trump’s lawyers accused the special counsel of partisan bias.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Four members of the board, including Sullivan, will work with legal counsel to start the search for a firm to conduct the audit, officials have said.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• Todd Maron, Tesla's general counsel, wasn't on the board but played a key role in negotiating Musk's pay.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2024
• The judge instructed him Wednesday to go through his file and make sure that everything in it is in possession of the district attorney and the defense counsel.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• That’s the maximum number of years in prison Smirnov could face if convicted, according to the special counsel’s office.
  — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• In the March primary, city voters will be asked to allow the auditor to have its own legal counsel, instead of requiring use of the city attorney.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
• The department’s general counsel, Jason Swann, took over the issue.
  — Trisha Powell Crain | [e-mail], al, 22 June 2023
• President Biden sat for a two-day interview with then-special counsel Robert Hur in October.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• For decades, and even right up until the last years of Spitz's life, journalists, prosecutors, and defense attorneys sought his medical counsel and time to interview him.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024
• Forcing landlords to pay slightly more to submit eviction notices, and guaranteeing legal counsel to tenants who receive them, could reduce both the number of filings and the number of removals.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024

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counsel

2 of 2 verb

• He counsels people who are trying to quit drinking.
• Plenty of lawyers have argued for a right to counsel in housing court.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• The parents returned to their jobs, and promised to get their son counseling within 48 hours.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2024
• Our son asked us to counsel this woman, who seemed childlike at 25.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• Other ambitious self-starters will counsel you to hitch up your trousers and keep at it.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• Like Grossman, Quinn would counsel a patient who changed their mind that the best course of action was to not take the second pill, and to wait and see.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• For those of you who have been waiting for the real news, Flesher counsels patience.
  — Jean Lindamood, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2023
• He has been trained in counseling people in crisis and doing that for years.
  — Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• The boys were counseled on making better decisions and sent on their way.
  — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• The firm has had to counsel some workers on what is appropriate at work, Ms. Turner added.
  — Will Feuer, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
• Proceeds go to the Alabama Pro-Life Coalition to be used to counsel and meet the needs of women in a crisis pregnancy.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2022
• The Bible counsels us to turn the other cheek to our enemies — but Scott turned both cheeks to his greatest political friend.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Further, the example of Ms. Suu Kyi should counsel caution.
  — Adam O’Neal, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2021
• Many clients that have come to counseling every other week start coming less.
  — Ryan Michaels | The Birmingham Times, al, 23 Mar. 2023
• Right to counsel clients are more likely to be female, Black and have multiple people living in their homes.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2023
• And the agencies don’t counsel people to limit their exposure.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2022
• As a Red Cross volunteer, Mrs. Goldwater counseled teenage mothers in the care of their babies.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Donald attempted to counsel young players from the sideline, and during practices with the Raiders.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The school said counseling resources will be made available to all students and employees.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• The members ended up attending after the Dramatists Guild counseled them to attend and voice support for the writers.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• The prosecutors say Orndoff should have been advised of her Miranda rights and right to counsel.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021
• And so Egypt privately counseled Israel to destroy Hamas.
  — Steven A. Cook, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2023
• Trump’s mixed results this campaign cycle has prompted his advisors to counsel him to hit the brakes on endorsing in so many races.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 25 May 2022
• Licensed physicians and health care providers at student health centers will still be allowed to counsel on and provide birth control.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2022
• Detroit saw a right to counsel ordinance passed this year, providing free lawyers for low-income tenants in court.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2022
• There were so many cases during March and April that in Queens and the Bronx, the right to counsel notwithstanding, there weren’t enough attorneys for everyone who needed them.
  — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 5 July 2022
• Online, breeders have counselled against pairing morphs that are known to result in impairments.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, fire chief Darby Allen was still counseling residents to go about their day as usual.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• After his diagnosis in 1987, a therapist counseled Mullin to turn on a switch every day.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Often, trademark lawyers will counsel that the benefits of filing outweigh these concerns.
  — Jess Collen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024