How to Use solicitor in a Sentence

solicitor

noun
  • Solicitors will be arrested for trespassing.
  • If not, the solicitor gets to slap him across the face.
    Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The solicitor agreed in exchange for the guilty pleas not to seek the death penalty.
    Nikie Mayo, USA TODAY, 26 May 2017
  • The solicitor had left the house by the time police arrived.
    Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 30 May 2017
  • Proxy solicitors on both sides have set up phone banks that can charge $4 to $6 per call.
    David Benoit, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The proxy solicitors and legal teams for both sides will look at the ballots and study the details, one at a time.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • My rule of thumb is simple: The more pressure the solicitor applies, the greater the reason to avoid them.
    John F. Wasik, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • George Nilson was solicitor at the time of the 2015 riot.
    Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Nixon reached further down in the ranks and got his solicitor general, Robert Bork, to do the deed.
    Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 10 May 2017
  • The solicitor, Boggs Muething, was the only woman in the cab.
    Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In the space for a purchase order is the name Terry Nestor, deputy city solicitor.
    Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2018
  • Among those agreeing to the move, according to the 2004 email: The solicitor general, at the time Ted Olsen.
    Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 18 Mar. 2017
  • Darnell Ingram, deputy solicitor for the city, told the board the settlement is in the best interest of the city.
    Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2021
  • They are all set in Bombay in the early ‘20s and are about the first female solicitor in India.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • What was the city solicitor attempting to find, and what, if anything, was found?
    Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2018
  • The mayor and the city solicitor were not available Thursday to comment on the lawsuit.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The police chief is a Black woman, as is the municipal judge and the court solicitor.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • His mother, Bernice, who’d met James in law school, stayed home with the kids and then, at fifty, passed the bar for a second time and went to work as a county solicitor.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Once that's done, the measure will go back to the City of Cincinnati, where the city solicitor will write the ballot language summary and matching law.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2020
  • George Saponaro, the town’s solicitor, said all of the residents should be in their new homes before that deadline arrives.
    Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 2 July 2018
  • The solicitor was advised about a permit and going door to door after dark.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
  • The husband went outside to intervene and the solicitor pushed the woman.
    Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • Words were exchanged and the solicitor left the property.
    Cheryl Higley, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The city solicitor has been charged with working out the details and language for the new Lowell ordinance.
    Linda Greenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • The second time was when my father, who worked as a solicitor, was invited to a garden party at the Palace.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Place this pair of bronze lions at your front door and watch with glee as pesky solicitors pass your house by and go bother your neighbor instead.
    Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2017
  • And right now there is a state solicitor filing appeals and motions for stays under your name.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Cincinnati city solicitor, the city's top lawyer, declined to comment Thursday night.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2023
  • If mom and baby are finally falling asleep at 10 a.m., and some solicitor rings the doorbell setting off the baby and the dogs, the visitor should go directly to jail.
    Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
  • If mom and baby are finally falling asleep at 10 a.m., and some solicitor rings the doorbell setting off baby and the dogs, the visitor should go directly to jail.
    Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024

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