How to Use docket in a Sentence

docket

1 of 2 noun
  • The judge had to postpone some of the cases on the docket.
  • And five more are on the docket.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • Read about what’s on the court’s docket here.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The court docket does not list a lawyer for Stokes.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But that would appear to be at odds with the docket.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • No lawyer was listed for him on the court docket.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Read below for the rest of the docket.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Court dockets show the men have been charged with wire fraud but are yet to file a plea.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • On the docket will be Jamie Benn.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 May 2026
  • Fishburn has cleared his docket for the rest of the week to hear the case.
    Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The docket for the federal case did not list lawyers for the men.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • On the shadow docket, justices do not have to make their votes known.
    Ken B. Morales, ProPublica, 1 July 2026
  • Bradley-Baskin has been removed from her docket.
    Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The court docket does not list his next appearance.
    Tom Winter, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Joseph, who was already in custody, had the charges added to his jail docket.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Court dockets slow, costs rise and public trust declines.
    Emily Naiser, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Online court records did not show his case docket as of Monday.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Plaintiffs have at least a dozen cases on court dockets in the coming months.
    Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Each seat is equipped with an audiobook tile docket and a pair of headphones.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • Ariel, what else has been on your docket recently or is coming soon?
    Chris Willman, Variety, 21 June 2023
  • As for steakhouses, five new restaurants are on the docket with steak on the menu.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
  • The last entry in the docket came in August.
    Paul Monies, Oklahoma Watch, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That’s not the only case on the Tucker docket.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Adding two new cities to the docket probably sounds like progress to some investors.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 21 July 2026
  • James has three games on his docket before getting to that home tilt against the Bucks.
    cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The online court docket doesn’t show the results of that request.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Romero, who did not file a response in the court docket, could not be reached Friday.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 26 May 2023
  • Our courts are underfunded, and our judges have full dockets.
    Elijah Manley, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
  • This is the court’s emergency docket.
    John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Radford could not be reached for comment and court records for his case are not available in the docket.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025

docket

2 of 2 verb
  • Some days, federal court dockets log a dozen or more new cases.
    Fred Schulte, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 June 2018
  • The plea deal was signed on Tuesday and docketed with the court on Thursday.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024
  • By that time, Duckett’s home had been docketed for foreclosure for more than a year.
    Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • If the appeal can't be docketed because of the money, the money is going to have to be paid.
    CBS News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The suit was filed on Friday, but not docketed until late Tuesday.
    Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The court has not docketed the request as of Monday afternoon.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The court’s other death-penalty case docketed so far is equally disturbing.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 June 2018
  • But some legal observers believe the way in which the hearing has been docketed indicates that a guilty plea is likely.
    Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The Court docketed the two-count true bill as the operative indictment.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Once the appeal is docketed, an order from the court on the disqualification issue can take up to six months.
    Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 8 May 2024
  • Two of those cases were docketed for Navy review on Wednesday, with rulings expected in the next few weeks.
    Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The petition was submitted Friday but has not yet been publicly docketed.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Supreme Court clerk’s office typically takes a few days to formally docket a new appeal.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
  • City Council goes dark in August so it might not be docketed until September.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2025
  • That filing is not immediately available on the court’s online docketing system.
    Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 12 July 2023
  • By a 5-4 vote, the court held that other state officials, including court clerks who would docket the private lawsuits couldn’t be sued in a pre-enforcement challenge.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court was docketed but not fully available as of Monday afternoon.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The application was docketed in May 2024.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The next step for the prosecutor would be to file a docketing statement with the Court of Appeals, indicating the questions to be decided.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Administration officials claimed the order was not enforceable until it was docketed and proceeded with the removals.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The petitions have not yet been docketed, but The Hill reviewed copies provided by the Justice Department.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Access to filings in the case are often delayed because the state Judicial Branch digital docketing system does not give the public online access to the file.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Justice Department’s petition has been shared with lawyers for parties challenging the order, but is not yet docketed at the Supreme Court.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The case is not expected to be docketed until after the Supreme Court returns from the Presidents Day holiday weekend.
    Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
  • In addition, a furlough appeal docketing 'strike team' was established at HQ to assist the regional and field offices in docketing these appeals.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The Miami Herald obtained both before the petition is officially docketed, sometime next week.
    Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 18 Mar. 2017
  • The case is not expected to be docketed until after the Supreme Court returns from the holiday weekend for Washington's Birthday.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The Microsoft Word version also contained some language that was not in the superseding indictment returned by the grand jury and publicly docketed on Wednesday.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Gabbard said the application will undergo review from different government agencies and several revisions before the city can docket it for a public hearing and potentially approve it.
    Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2019
  • January 6th would seem to fall within that bailiwick, but, as court dockets up and down the Eastern Seaboard demonstrate, the insurrection and its surrounding intrigues remain very much part of America’s present tense.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023

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