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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Biles and Owens got married on April 22 at a courthouse in Houston.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
  • During breaks, some race to the courthouse lobby to grab a few minutes with their cell phones.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Van Gundy didn’t attend the hearing but was in the courthouse, using a walker to get around.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Here's how the scene outside the courthouse unfolded on the day of Trump's arraignment.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But for all her courthouse coups, Rice didn’t make a dent in the department’s mindset.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
  • Many of the legal experts that stood on the curb outside the courthouse for six years can't – for six weeks can't explain it.
    CBS News, 2 June 2024
  • Protests were planned in nearly 2,000 locations across the country, from city blocks and small towns to courthouse steps and community parks, organizers said.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 14 June 2025
  • What once meant physical trips to courthouses and face-to-face meetings with judges now happens through smartphone apps and digital signatures — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025

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