How to Use court in a Sentence
- Court is adjourned for the day.
- The case is before the state's highest court.
- Please explain to the court what happened that night.
- Court is now in session.
- There was a large group of protesters outside the court.
- She's a judge on an appellate court.
- The court reversed the lower court's decision.
- The prosecution has new evidence to submit to the court.
- The court ruled the law unconstitutional.
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Instead, it was propelled forward, first in the streets, then in the courts.
— Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023 -
He was released on bond and has a scheduled court date of June 26.
— Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023 -
The court had planned to redo the courtyards well before the marble fell.
— Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023 -
On the fifth day of Trump court, that dynamic got Trump in trouble.
— Graham Kates, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023 -
The Reels brothers were held in contempt of court for nearly eight years.
— Jade Lawson, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023 -
He was supposed to be in court on the day of the assassination.
— Arturo Torres, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023 -
In the mid-1930s, she was hauled into court for criticizing the Nazi regime.
— Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023 -
There is a padel court (and tennis; pros like Alexander Zverev stop by).
— Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024 -
The court ruled 6-3 that free speech rights protected the designer.
— oregonlive, 17 July 2023 -
Once lower court judges blocked the federal policy, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
— Anisha Kohli, Time, 23 June 2023 -
And, as Qatar has indicated publicly, the ball is in Hamas' court at this time.
— CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024 -
After a long two days of court naps and having to sit through mean memes, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to throw a tantrum.
— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024 -
State law allows challenges of the signatures in court.
— Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024 -
Together, the maximum penalties for those crimes in adult court add up to 35 years in prison.
— Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023 -
Richins appeared in court on Monday, when she was denied bail.
— Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 12 June 2023 -
After Illinois’ Luke Goode missed a free throw with 9.2 seconds to play, Hoggard grabbed a rebound and raced up the court.
— Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024 -
Instead, his dad spent endless hours with him on the basketball court.
— Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023 -
The issue has pitted businesses and unions against each other in court battles around the world.
— Max Ramsay, Fortune Europe, 12 Mar. 2024 -
The New York Times and other news outlets asked a court to unseal the information.
— Harold Maass, The Week, 23 June 2023 -
Desiree Figueroa has not been sentenced, but was slated to appear in court for a hearing on her case Wednesday.
— USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024 -
The court found the assertion that Farrakhan is antisemitic are not verifiable.
— Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 17 Apr. 2024
- The male will sometimes court the female for hours.
- The speech was clearly intended to court middle-class voters.
- He was courting his college sweetheart.
- The couple courted for two years before marrying.
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Among them were the precise types of voters that the Boals hoped Haley might be able to court.
— Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024 -
In 1955, O’Dell courted the idea of hosting her own talk show in Cincinnati.
— Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023 -
The present tense: to take a loveless path is to court a purple-blue emptiness, like a disco or a grotto.
— Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023 -
In the days to come before this important milestone in your life, people will court you for your vote.
— Essence, 5 Dec. 2023 -
Valentine’s Day is in the rear-view mirror, but that’s no excuse to stop courting your partner.
— The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024 -
But zoos in China have courted public ridicule in the past for trying to pass off pets like dogs as wild animals.
— Heather Chen, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023 -
The complaints haven’t stopped Spolin from courting inmates and their families.
— Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Priscilla doesn’t shy from the discomfort of seeing a petite 14-year-old courted by a full-grown rock ’n’ roll star.
— Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023 -
Roku is stepping up its efforts to court Madison Avenue.
— William Earl, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Deep down, the Golden Globes have always cared most about courting superstars.
— Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023 -
The group has been courting potential candidates with no luck.
— Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024 -
This may change as more people of color enter the professional world of wine and more are courted as clients and customers.
— Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2023 -
Have a Double Date Set up an outing with another courting couple from your group of friends.
— Janece Maze, Country Living, 31 Aug. 2023 -
Both Lee and Porter were courting voters from the Democratic progressive far left.
— John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024 -
Some on the GOP’s far-right flank have openly courted the idea of a shutdown, once again hoping to use the threat of a fiscal calamity as leverage to achieve steep spending cuts.
— Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023 -
All four counties are home to some of the most evangelical voters in Iowa, of whom DeSantis has spent months courting.
— Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024 -
This left McCarthy the choice of lumbering into a shutdown that would have been blamed on Republicans or courting the ire of Gaetz for the good of the party.
— The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2023 -
His team initially courted BookTok with posts and hashtags in the same style, and flew out a popular creator for a playoff game.
— Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023 -
In addition to the coasters, Haines recently courted fan attention by, at times, using up to three mugs on the table in front of her.
— Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023 -
At that time, Brown was being courted by Palmer, who would end up becoming her future husband.
— Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023 -
The retailer’s top 2% of its customers drive about 40% of total sales and the group is courted with special events and designer appearances.
— Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Over the years, Pelosi had to repeatedly court rebellious Democrats to maintain her hold on leadership.
— Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023 -
The leader courted the Kurds in earlier years by granting them more rights and reversing restrictions on the use of their language.
— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023 -
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 25, has been the best pitcher in Japanese baseball the past three seasons and is being courted by the Yankees, the Mets and other clubs.
— Ken Belson, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023 -
Instead, as Klein traces, the right actively courted people who felt newly angry and abandoned in 2020.
— Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023 -
The enthusiastic early adopters have already bought in, and the market hasn’t been very successful at courting traditional gas car buyers.
— Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
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