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
  • 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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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 charges date back to 2004, when Johnson was a federal magistrate.
    Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The identity of the suspect and the charges against him will be released after he has been seen by a magistrate, police said.
    Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 May 2024
  • There are few guidelines for setting bond amounts and the task is generally left to the discretion of the judge or magistrate, Weiss said.
    Gina Kaufman, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025

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