How to Use foreman in a Sentence

foreman

noun
  • The foreman told the judge the jury couldn't get past the third of nine questions on the verdict form.
    Nathan Fenno, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • Audible gasps could be heard from the gallery when the jury foreman pronounced him guilty.
    CBS News, 9 May 2018
  • The jury foreman ought not be best buddies with the prosecution.
    Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 24 Apr. 2018
  • When the jury foreman read the verdicts, sighs of relief could be heard from the victims' families.
    Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The jurors seated themselves while the foreman handed the verdict slip to the courtroom deputy.
    Lisa Scottoline, Philly.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The 44-year-old had just arrived home from a long shift as a foreman at a landscaping company.
    Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2018
  • On the street below, water from his broken gutter splashes on a Palestinian construction foreman.
    Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • The stones were near one of two main roads in the 43-acre cemetery, said Chris Passera, foreman/sexton of municipal cemeteries.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Russell was always proud of his role as a foreman extending the many parking lots of Jones Beach in the early 1960's.
    courant.com, 16 May 2018
  • Local employers for positions including sales, foreman, roofers, truck drivers, front desk, crane operators and more.
    Cindy Kent, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 May 2018
  • As the foreman for the jury of five men and seven women read the guilty verdicts, Laws bent over in her seat with her head in her hands, wiping away tears as another family member rubbed her back.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • By the end of the day the foreman had gotten the message.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
  • There was a nice foreman there who came down to the gate.
    Jason Diamond, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2022
  • The next day, Williamson returned to the site with Veach and again told the D5 foreman to join the union.
    Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The foreman found the phone in a Dumpster and opted to keep it.
    Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 13 July 2018
  • The foreman, the sole Black man on the panel, wept when the verdict was read.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Chris Dzierman, a bridge painter and foreman, looked to the west.
    John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The 27-year-old foreman held up the last remnants of a bottle of Don Julio.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • The foreman at Lynn’s ranch, Wayne Spears, also was killed.
    Jonathan Mattise, Jeffrey Collins, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Don Walesky was the electrical sub-foreman on the L’Ambiance project.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
  • Jones called up Alan Sparks, 64, the Wheat Ranch foreman, and asked for permission to try to catch the black bull.
    Susan Carroll, NBC News, 22 July 2022
  • Santos and his brothers weren’t far from work, and their foreman was on the way to pick them up.
    Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The foreman sent Faehn out to buy Bubble Wrap and boxes.
    Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Gibson is a foreman within the Bridge Unit and has worked for the county for 20 years.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2022
  • The foreman said the vehicles would be moved when workers come down from the roof for lunch.
    cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The foreman was fined $5,000 and placed on five years’ probation.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • By the luck of the draw, I had been seated first on the jury and had thus been appointed foreman.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 4 June 2022
  • Hines-Jones cleaned up alleys, then became a foreman and signed up to learn how to drive a truck.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
  • If things got out of hand, a foreman would be called over to mediate.
    Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
  • Loretta Lynn is mourning the death of her ranch foreman, Wayne Spears.
    Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2021

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