SHERIFF in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for SHERIFF, such as:

1. I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children.
2. Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like.
3. I should say I also suspect the sheriff is the serial killer of gangbangers.
4. As a matter of routine, the sheriff's office there had been notified of the change of address.
5. When we got there, we were delivered up to the sheriff, Mr. Joseph Graham, and by him placed in jail.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHERIFF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sheriff
 n.  chief officer of a shire or county, to be entrusted the execution of the laws
Classic Sentence:
1  In the early autumn, news came from Wakamin that the sheriff had forbidden an organizer for the National Nonpartisan League to speak anywhere in the county.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  The organizer had defied the sheriff, and announced that in a few days he would address a farmers' political meeting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  , in May, had outraged the sheriff's eight-year-old daughter.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
4  When we got there, we were delivered up to the sheriff, Mr. Joseph Graham, and by him placed in jail.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  There was another pause, and then the judge arrived and the sheriff proclaimed the opening of the court.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  They got a posse together, and went off to guard the river bank, and as soon as it is light the sheriff and a gang are going to beat up the woods.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  But, his joy received a sudden check; for within five minutes, he returned in the custody of a sheriff 's officer, informing us, in a flood of tears, that all was lost.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
9  MICAWBER, and the defendant in that cause is the prey of the sheriff having legal jurisdiction in this bailiwick.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
10  Until last year he had good luck renting; then cotton fell, and the sheriff seized and sold all he had.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  If such a peon should run away, the sheriff, elected by white suffrage, can usually be depended on to catch the fugitive, return him, and ask no questions.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff's man.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
13  Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  Excitement was at fever beat until the morning papers, two days after, announced that the wounded deputy sheriffs were out of danger.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence:
1  I should say I also suspect the sheriff is the serial killer of gangbangers.
2  As a matter of routine, the sheriff's office there had been notified of the change of address.