How to Use magistrate in a Sentence

magistrate

noun

• At least 10 measures across the country refer to lesser magistrates.
  — Phoebe Petrovic, ProPublica, 2 Aug. 2024
• He will be arraigned before a federal magistrate at noon Friday, according to the court.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2024
• One of the magistrate's concerns was the safety of the teen.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 21 June 2022
• Trump's team left the room first, after the magistrate.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 13 June 2023
• The letter was addressed to the mayor of Rome, the City Council and city magistrates.
  — Matteo Moschella, NBC News, 6 July 2023
• The magistrate entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Of the eight district and magistrate judges in the Southern District, all are white, and seven are men.
  — The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
• Nell just wants to evade capture long enough to find an honest magistrate to clear her name.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
• Then, the magistrate used a mechanism to reveal the marbles one by one.
  — Ariel Procaccia, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
• The 160 deputies who will be elected in June also will appoint judges and magistrates to the Supreme Court of Justice.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• The magistrate told my tenant and me to sit in the hearing room alone for a couple of minutes to reach a settlement.
  — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• In medieval times, one might be sent on a pilgrimage by a magistrate as a sentence for a crime.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• At that point, the magistrate would determine if Spacey could be released on bail to await a trial.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 13 June 2022
• The notice would have given her the option to have a hearing before a clerk magistrate.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Happy Fourth of July from the nine unelected magistrates of the Supreme Court!
  — Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• The magistrate, who entered a not guilty plea on her behalf, set a pretrial date of Aug. 15.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
• The identity of the suspect and the charges against him will be released after he has been seen by a magistrate, police said.
  — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 May 2024
• His next hearing is before a D.C. magistrate judge on March 22 via Zoom.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022
• Kelly appeared briefly in court in the town of Carnarvon where a magistrate refused to release him on bail.
  — Fox News, 4 Nov. 2021
• The judge or magistrate hearing the case would still have discretion on whether to accept the defense and allow tenants to stay in place.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022
• Fines, fees and costs accrued in West Virginia magistrate courts can now be paid online.
  — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2022
• The federal magistrate judge who gave the go ahead for the raid only issued the warrant to seize the business’s property.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• Here's what happens at your hearing A district court judge or magistrate will hear your case.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2023
• They were not informed, said Pawar, when the police filed a charge sheet against them, or when hearings in their case were held at a magistrate’s court in their absence.
  — Aarefa Johari, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2021
• The case remains open, according to magistrate court records.
  — Jozsef Papp, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022
• With serious charges like these, an appearance in a magistrates’ court is a first step, and the case will now be referred to a higher court.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Being a traffic magistrate has also helped me in that vein.
  — Samuel Ford Stark, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
• The indictment was received by the duty magistrate judge and placed under seal.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
• The bright yellow gas boat that’s been docked in a ritzy Fort Lauderdale neighborhood for the past three years has got to go, a special magistrate ruled Tuesday.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2022
• Dearie proposed James Orenstein, a retired magistrate, to help with the review.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024