How to Use peremptory in a Sentence

peremptory

adjective

• Her peremptory tone angered me.
• Nelson has used nine of 15 peremptory strikes by the end of Monday.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
• Arizona will ban the use of peremptory strikes starting Jan. 1.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The defense used a peremptory strike to send home a nursing assistant who marched in a protest and carried a sign.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2021
• My answers to his questions grew more and more peremptory.
  — Dale Peck, The New Republic, 12 July 2019
• Wednesday afternoon, Cahill gave three more peremptory challenges to the defense and one to the state.
  — Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
• Kupato sat in the front seat next to the driver, using peremptory hand signals to direct the way.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Such peremptory strikes, as they're called, don't require the lawyer using it to cite any reasons for their removals.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2021
• Their lack of rapport was evident in the peremptory way the president fired him.
  — Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman and Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
• The standard for proving that a lawyer’s peremptory strikes were racially biased was set in the 1986 Batson v. Kentucky Supreme Court case.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
• Murder, rape, concentration camps, child abuse—all these taboos have lost some of their peremptory power in the past month alone.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
• Second was the state using peremptory strikes against five of six African Americans.
  — oregonlive.com, 21 June 2019
• The history of peremptory challenges dates back hundreds of years ago to England.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2021
• After the group was whittled down, both sides were allowed to make peremptory challenges on Wednesday.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
• In the most recent trial, the State exercised peremptory strikes against five of six black prospective jurors.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
• Nelson used another peremptory strike to send that man home.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2021
• The defense used six of its seven peremptory challenges, and the prosecution four.
  — Graham Bowley and Mark Roth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• By turns peremptory and sweet, Godinez is great at wrangling helpers, voluntary and reluctant.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 11 Oct. 2017
• Still bossy and blunt to the point of obnoxiousness, Olive has found the ideal narrator in Farr, who captures her peremptory manner and brutal honesty to a tee.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
• As The Register points out, what’s unusual here is the peremptory nature of the Commission’s ruling.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018
• Both sides in each case will be able to use 10 peremptory challenges to excuse a potential juror without reason.
  — Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• In other words, bombs are blunter, more peremptory instruments.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
• The defense used peremptory strikes on a Hispanic woman who said her English was not great and on a Hispanic man who had martial arts training.
  — Eric Levenson and Aaron Cooper, CNN, 10 Mar. 2021
• The people working there, with their flushed faces, peremptory manner, and white uniforms, greeted her like a lifelong acquaintance.
  — Thomas Bunstead, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
• The people working there, with their flushed faces, peremptory manner, and white uniforms, greeted her like a lifelong acquaintance.
  — Thomas Bunstead, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• His peremptory order also unseated Cyril Magnin, the city’s official greeter and the couple’s host, and his daughter Ellen Newman, who also had an ice cream cone in hand.
  — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
• On the flip side, nearly every single peremptory strike by the defense involving the regular jury makeup was of a white person — 12 in all.
  — Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
• And power, as it is exercised within the world’s largest political group, is ruthless, peremptory and cloaked.
  — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
• Bryant asked whether the defense and prosecution were willing to forgo their peremptory challenges.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• Legal experts predicted that the defense would want black jurors and, in fact, Cosby's lawyers only struck whites with their peremptory challenges.
  — Ron Allen, NBC News, 24 May 2017

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