How to Use court in a Sentence

court

1 of 2 noun

• Court is adjourned for the day.
• The case is before the state's highest court.
• Please explain to the court what happened that night.
• Court is now in session.
• There was a large group of protesters outside the court.
• She's a judge on an appellate court.
• The court reversed the lower court's decision.
• The prosecution has new evidence to submit to the court.
• The court ruled the law unconstitutional.
• Instead, it was propelled forward, first in the streets, then in the courts.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• He was released on bond and has a scheduled court date of June 26.
  — Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023
• The court had planned to redo the courtyards well before the marble fell.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• On the fifth day of Trump court, that dynamic got Trump in trouble.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
• The Reels brothers were held in contempt of court for nearly eight years.
  — Jade Lawson, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• He was supposed to be in court on the day of the assassination.
  — Arturo Torres, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• In the mid-1930s, she was hauled into court for criticizing the Nazi regime.
  — Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• There is a padel court (and tennis; pros like Alexander Zverev stop by).
  — Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• The court ruled 6-3 that free speech rights protected the designer.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2023
• Once lower court judges blocked the federal policy, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
  — Anisha Kohli, Time, 23 June 2023
• And, as Qatar has indicated publicly, the ball is in Hamas' court at this time.
  — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024
• After a long two days of court naps and having to sit through mean memes, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to throw a tantrum.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2024
• State law allows challenges of the signatures in court.
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
• Together, the maximum penalties for those crimes in adult court add up to 35 years in prison.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
• Richins appeared in court on Monday, when she was denied bail.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 12 June 2023
• After Illinois’ Luke Goode missed a free throw with 9.2 seconds to play, Hoggard grabbed a rebound and raced up the court.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024
• Instead, his dad spent endless hours with him on the basketball court.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• The issue has pitted businesses and unions against each other in court battles around the world.
  — Max Ramsay, Fortune Europe, 12 Mar. 2024
• The New York Times and other news outlets asked a court to unseal the information.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 June 2023
• Despite having the document, Smith still has to petition the court to change her name.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
• Brown died in 1999 in Las Vegas without leaving any mention of a wife in court records, police said in the Facebook post.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 31 May 2023

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court

2 of 2 verb

• The male will sometimes court the female for hours.
• The speech was clearly intended to court middle-class voters.
• He was courting his college sweetheart.
• The couple courted for two years before marrying.
• Among them were the precise types of voters that the Boals hoped Haley might be able to court.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
• In 1955, O’Dell courted the idea of hosting her own talk show in Cincinnati.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• The present tense: to take a loveless path is to court a purple-blue emptiness, like a disco or a grotto.
  — Diane Seuss Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the days to come before this important milestone in your life, people will court you for your vote.
  — Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
• Valentine’s Day is in the rear-view mirror, but that’s no excuse to stop courting your partner.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• But zoos in China have courted public ridicule in the past for trying to pass off pets like dogs as wild animals.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• The complaints haven’t stopped Spolin from courting inmates and their families.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• Priscilla doesn’t shy from the discomfort of seeing a petite 14-year-old courted by a full-grown rock ’n’ roll star.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
• Roku is stepping up its efforts to court Madison Avenue.
  — William Earl, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
• Deep down, the Golden Globes have always cared most about courting superstars.
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• The group has been courting potential candidates with no luck.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
• This may change as more people of color enter the professional world of wine and more are courted as clients and customers.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2023
• Have a Double Date Set up an outing with another courting couple from your group of friends.
  — Janece Maze, Country Living, 31 Aug. 2023
• Both Lee and Porter were courting voters from the Democratic progressive far left.
  — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Some on the GOP’s far-right flank have openly courted the idea of a shutdown, once again hoping to use the threat of a fiscal calamity as leverage to achieve steep spending cuts.
  — Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• All four counties are home to some of the most evangelical voters in Iowa, of whom DeSantis has spent months courting.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• This left McCarthy the choice of lumbering into a shutdown that would have been blamed on Republicans or courting the ire of Gaetz for the good of the party.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2023
• His team initially courted BookTok with posts and hashtags in the same style, and flew out a popular creator for a playoff game.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• In addition to the coasters, Haines recently courted fan attention by, at times, using up to three mugs on the table in front of her.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• At that time, Brown was being courted by Palmer, who would end up becoming her future husband.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
• The retailer’s top 2% of its customers drive about 40% of total sales and the group is courted with special events and designer appearances.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Over the years, Pelosi had to repeatedly court rebellious Democrats to maintain her hold on leadership.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• The leader courted the Kurds in earlier years by granting them more rights and reversing restrictions on the use of their language.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
• Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 25, has been the best pitcher in Japanese baseball the past three seasons and is being courted by the Yankees, the Mets and other clubs.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Instead, as Klein traces, the right actively courted people who felt newly angry and abandoned in 2020.
  — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• Those same governments are now courting El-Sisi for help in alleviating the pressure on Gaza.
  — Mirette Magdy, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024