How to Use courthouse in a Sentence

courthouse

noun
  • The courthouse is in the 100 block of Main Street in Kemp.
    Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 19 June 2023
  • Each of the lawyers spoke briefly on the steps of the courthouse.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The courthouse was packed, and there was no longer room in the salle.
    Katie Ebner-Landy, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
  • He was taken straight from the courthouse to the airport.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The death is the second at the Manhattan courthouse in a month.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • They got hitched at the end of 2020 in the courthouse, masks on, in part for tax purposes.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 23 May 2022
  • Viktor Kozeny is led out of a courthouse in the Bahamas in 2005.
    E.b. Solomont, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The courthouse square buzzes with live music and the din of chatter on a Friday night.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Troy Birk was in the courthouse as the guilty verdicts were returned against Brooks.
    Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
  • His home received minor damage, but the storm tore off the roof of the courthouse.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The groups were also present to escort the family to the courthouse.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The courthouse is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Across from the courthouse is a floral and collectibles shop called Kreative Kreations.
    John Branch, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • In almost any courthouse, plea deals grease the wheels of justice.
    Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • With the help of a colleague, Martin pulled records about Gerry’s case from the courthouse in Goderich.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Main Town Square is home to the original 1880 Round Top courthouse.
    Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 17 May 2023
  • The film ends with them getting married at a courthouse.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Three weeks later, the babies stayed home while Brooke and Billy drove to the courthouse.
    Caroline Kitchener, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
  • Some have pushed off day jobs or moved near to the Washington, DC, courthouse.
    WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The couple were first married at a courthouse last March.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • When the hearing was over, Adams got up, buttoned his suit jacket, and walked out of the courthouse.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The cries of the women outside a Tehran courthouse swell to a collective wail.
    Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Others cheered so loudly they could be heard from the second floor of the courthouse.
    Bill Rankin, ajc, 24 Nov. 2021
  • In all, 22 couples showed up to the courthouse at 10 a.m. to be married on Valentine's Day.
    Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Feb. 2022
  • David Schoen, one of Bannon's lawyers, said outside the courthouse that the verdict would not stand.
    Arkansas Online, 23 July 2022
  • Crosses for all the victims were set up at the county courthouse.
    CBS News, 27 May 2022
  • The move briefly forced the entire courthouse to go virtual.
    Jamiles Lartey, NBC News, 6 July 2022
  • Inside the Courtroom: This is what goes on behind the courthouse’s closed doors.
    New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The courthouse wedding had been meant to stay simple, with just a few photos around downtown Chandler afterward, according to Ruehle.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • And in July, prosecutors filed separate charges against Johnson for both the January birthday fight and the car vandalism, the case that led to her arrest at the courthouse on Aug. 7.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2025

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