How to Use courtroom in a Sentence

courtroom

noun
  • Some in the courtroom gallery wiped tears from their eyes.
    Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • But Carroll’s case is the first to make it to a courtroom.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
  • For years, hip-hop lyrics have been weaponized in courtrooms across the U.S.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • At the start of the hearing, the judge warned the audience to keep decorum in the courtroom.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The courtroom was silent and thick with tension as the judge compared the rounds.
    Josh Campbell, CNN, 12 July 2024
  • Jurors were not in the courtroom to hear the tense exchange.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The teen was in the courtroom as part of a field trip when King called her out for sleeping.
    Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • What ensues is a drama that takes place in the home, in the courtroom, and in the public eye.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Outside the courtroom, Gibbs declined to address the specifics of the case.
    Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The judge had bailiffs take Brooks to the alternate courtroom.
    Todd Richmond, ajc, 6 Oct. 2022
  • And there was something in courtroom footage about the way people spoke.
    Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The movie is largely set in drab Arkham and a stately courtroom.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Her guilty plea came on the day she was slated to go to trial in a Vista courtroom.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The rest of the mothers gathered outside the courtroom, waiting to be let in.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Flores, surely, can’t wait to see them in the courtroom.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Gasps rang through the courtroom, and many of the Guardipees’ family members sobbed.
    Emma Epperly, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
  • De Niro was not present in the courtroom when the decision was announced.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The men looked beaten and injured as they were brought into the courtroom.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The judge denied the defense's motion, and Lori remained in the courtroom.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Paltrow’s lawyer griped to the judge Wednesday about a camera in the courtroom that was trained on his client’s face.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The moment the judge began describing it all again, Nicole ran out of the courtroom in tears.
    Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That is why much of our politics now takes place in a courtroom.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • There’s the question of how many lawyers Trump has at his side in the courtroom in each case, Udolf said, and the complexity of the law.
    Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Miller, entered the courtroom at the beginning of the hearing with their lawyer.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The packed courtroom seemed to answer in the affirmative to that one.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • This will be the first time in seven months the parties will appear in Judge Tanya Chutkan's courtroom.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • But her breakout role came in 2021 with the lead role on OWN’s hit courtroom drama Delilah.
    Essence, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Shortly thereafter, deputies stood guard at the windows in the courtroom.
    Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Friday’s hearing took place in the same courtroom where President Donald Trump faced criminal trial in a hush money case last year.
    Emma Tucker, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Image In the Wichita courtroom, Hanes offered his only public reflection on the bank collapse.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025

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