How to Use chief justice in a Sentence

chief justice

noun

• That has, at times, made the chief justice hard to pin down.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• John Roberts is the 17th chief justice of the United States .
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
• The chief justice of the Supreme Court presides over that process.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The chief justice of the Supreme Court oversees the trial.
  — Nicholas Fandos, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
• Roberts serves as the 17th U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice.
  — Sabine Martin, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2024
• The chief justice has tried to make this work, but in the end, the legacy is the court is busted.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 May 2022
• Our new chief justice of the Supreme Court was a woman.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
• And that's, just to be clear, pretty rare for a chief justice.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
• She was named the state's first woman chief justice in 2014.
  — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2024
• She was named the state's first woman chief justice in 2014.
  — Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
• On this issue, the chief justice’s was not the only voice.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
• The outlet searched through dozens of cases where the chief justice was asked to force a judge off of a case.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• Warren Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court through the ‘70s and ‘80s, bought his books there.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• In Kentucky, a district court judge was among the dead, the state’s chief justice said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• Abrahamson spent 43 years on the bench, 19 as the chief justice.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021
• Um, and that’s likely to be our Supreme court, chief justice come next year.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
• And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
• The next step will be for the chief justice to organize a trial.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• The first time that this process was used for the hiring a clerk of the supreme court and court of appeals was in 2018 when PDR was chief justice.
  — Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
• The chief justice hates when the court is sort of drawn into the mudsling of politics.
  — ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
• The court's justices will have to vote again at the start of its next term in January on a chief justice.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2022
• This is not the first time false claims have circulated about the chief justice.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
• Five of the nine Supreme Court seats are on the ballot next year, including chief justice.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 30 June 2023
• Roberts, the chief justice, issued a rare rebuke that day.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
• The chief justice is not the boss of Justice Clarence Thomas or any of the associate justices.
  — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
• The chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court urged the state legislature to raise salaries for judges across the state on Monday.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
• That expansion came over the objection of the court's chief justice at the time.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• But the chief justice did not seek to bridge the partisan divide in the case of Trump vs. United States.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• On Wednesday, Barrett dealt the chief justice a body blow.
  — Adam Liptak, Star Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
• Should the sitting vice president, chief justice (current or retired) of the Supreme Court, or the sitting speaker of the house die, flags would be ordered to half-staff for 10 days from the day of death.
  — Addy Bink, The Hill, 29 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025