How to Use search warrant in a Sentence

search warrant

noun
  • Armed with a search warrant, Watson and his team combed the house.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Armed with a search warrant on March 31, FBI agents searched his home.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Some had been as young as 13 when the abuse took place, according to the search warrant.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
  • When police returned the next day to serve a search warrant, the couple was gone.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
  • State police did not release the reason for the search warrant.
    Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Officials said a search warrant was served at the home.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Officers went to a nearby home with a search warrant for the house.
    Camila Pedrosa, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Federal agents showed up at the home around 6 a.m. with a search warrant and duffel bags, the sources said.
    NBC News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Goodlett and Jaynes are accused of lying to get the search warrant for Taylor’s home.
    Time, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Along with the arrest warrant, the detectives served a search warrant at the home.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • That evening, a well-armed team of agents showed up at her house with another search warrant.
    Kirsten Berg, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024
  • An attempt to serve a search warrant on Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s guesthouse?
    Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • When police returned with a search warrant the next day, the couple was gone.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Snapchat provided the recording as part of a search warrant, the filing said.
    Alta Spells, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The State wrote a new search warrant and conducted the analysis again.
    Gary Wynn, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That search warrant was reported by the same watchdog group.
    Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • May 31: Officials learned Rath had been at a home in the town of Newfield, and a search warrant was conducted there that same day.
    Jacob MacK, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Deputies executed the search warrant and entered the home to look for Jackson.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 21 May 2024
  • Local prosecutors say the FBI didn’t have a search warrant to enter the home.
    Simone Weichselbaum, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Deputies executed a search warrant at the home and recovered a firearm, the office said.
    Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Detectives obtained a search warrant for the Chevrolet but didn’t find any weapons.
    Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2024
  • Two days after his death, Geiger and her relatives demanded a copy of the search warrant.
    Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
  • No results from blood testing were reported in the search warrant.
    CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Once Espy was arrested, his cell phone was seized, and a search warrant was obtained.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Trump based his claim on the search warrant’s language, which included a standard policy about the use of lethal force.
    Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 June 2024
  • Twitter, now known as X, had argued it should not have been barred from disclosing the search warrant and Trump should have been given a chance to block it.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Then in April, the complaint continues, a search warrant was issued for his apartment which overlooks the street where the baby was found.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • Previously, the search warrant in the case and part of the FBI’s affidavit to justify it were released.
    Chris Strohm, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Goodlett was charged with one count of conspiring with Jaynes to falsify the search warrant for Taylor’s home and to cover up their actions.
    Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Officers quickly obtained a search warrant for the apartment.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2024

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