: a law-enforcement officer (such as a sheriff or marshal)
Examples of lawman in a Sentence
Wyatt Earp was a famous American lawman of the Wild West.
as the rural county's chief lawman, the sheriff has to patrol a vast area with only minimal manpower
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Kirsh’s shock of white hair and dry, sardonic air give Olyphant refreshing distance from the upright lawmen he’s known for.
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Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
By his own admission, the Mexican lawman known as El Diablo — The Devil — supervised a scourge of torture, murder, kidnappings, land grabs and other abuses while amassing a fortune in cartel bribes that bankrolled purchases of homes, cattle and a fleet of buses.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
Mendenhall stared back at the lawman and shrugged his shoulders.
—Tim Evans, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Sheridan saw it in 1883, when Marshal Jim Courtright turned from amiable lawman to stone killer in a barroom full of bad hombres.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 12 June 2025
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Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
By his own admission, the Mexican lawman known as El Diablo — The Devil — supervised a scourge of torture, murder, kidnappings, land grabs and other abuses while amassing a fortune in cartel bribes that bankrolled purchases of homes, cattle and a fleet of buses.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
Mendenhall stared back at the lawman and shrugged his shoulders.
—Tim Evans, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Sheridan saw it in 1883, when Marshal Jim Courtright turned from amiable lawman to stone killer in a barroom full of bad hombres.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 12 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for lawman
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“Lawman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lawman. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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lawman
noun
law·man
ˈlȯ-mən 
: a law-enforcement officer (as a sheriff or marshal)
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