How to Use magistrate in a Sentence

magistrate

noun

• The magistrate judge doesn't have the final word in the case.
  — CBS News, 16 July 2019
• One of the magistrate's concerns was the safety of the teen.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 21 June 2022
• In fact, the bank told her, her account had a hold on it from the magistrate court.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2020
• Trump's team left the room first, after the magistrate.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 13 June 2023
• At the end of it, the magistrate permitted the case to go to trial.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• The county’s contract with the city for magistrate judges expires at the end of the year.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 5 June 2019
• For a very long time.’ The magistrate granted his wish — no bail.
  — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2019
• The letter was addressed to the mayor of Rome, the City Council and city magistrates.
  — Matteo Moschella, NBC News, 6 July 2023
• Two of the accused, Jason Han and Mark Zhu, did report to face the magistrate in court.
  — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
• The phrase stunned both the victim’s family and the magistrates.
  — Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 1 May 2025
• The magistrate went inside while the three judges waited in the parking lot.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• The magistrate went inside while the three judges waited in the parking lot.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
• The magistrate went inside while the three judges waited in the parking lot.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• Police lodge a case and the city magistrate seizes and locks the property.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 9 Nov. 2019
• The magistrate entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Of the eight district and magistrate judges in the Southern District, all are white, and seven are men.
  — The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
• Nell just wants to evade capture long enough to find an honest magistrate to clear her name.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
• Then, the magistrate used a mechanism to reveal the marbles one by one.
  — Ariel Procaccia, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
• The magistrate never got the job and retired later that year.
  — Sylvie Corbet, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• The 160 deputies who will be elected in June also will appoint judges and magistrates to the Supreme Court of Justice.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• If no judge is available, the police would be able to get approval from a magistrate.
  — Tyler Arnold, Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2020
• The next month, a federal magistrate judge sent him to federal prison for 12 months and a day.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 2 Mar. 2020
• The magistrate told my tenant and me to sit in the hearing room alone for a couple of minutes to reach a settlement.
  — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• In medieval times, one might be sent on a pilgrimage by a magistrate as a sentence for a crime.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• At that point, the magistrate would determine if Spacey could be released on bail to await a trial.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 13 June 2022
• The notice would have given her the option to have a hearing before a clerk magistrate.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Happy Fourth of July from the nine unelected magistrates of the Supreme Court!
  — Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• The magistrate, who entered a not guilty plea on her behalf, set a pretrial date of Aug. 15.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
• The jury of six citizens will conduct the trial along with three magistrates — a procedure in France reserved for the most serious crimes.
  — Nicolas Vaux-Montagny and Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
• As when a warrant is presented at a private home, at the workplace a valid warrant must be issued by a court, have the correct name and address of the person being seized and be signed by a judge or magistrate judge.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025