How to Use sheriff in a Sentence

sheriff

noun

• The victims were ages 8 and 10 at the time of the abuse, the sheriff said.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2022
• The sheriff's deputies then seem to lose their grip on him and he is rolled across the floor.
  — Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
• By the time of his death, the sheriff said all $30 million had been spent.
  — Isabella Leandri, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Mar. 2022
• The sheriff’s office said the child was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• The brothers were each in possession of a gun, the sheriff said.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• The sheriff said the two were found in the parking lot of a hospital in Danville.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022
• The four others who were injured ranged in age from 16 to 30, the sheriff said.
  — Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• Vallee did not have any weapons on him or in the car, according to the sheriff.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2022
• The sheriff's office further added that the plane had caught fire.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• The mosque also houses a day care or school, the sheriff said.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2022
• The bolts on the cover were loose and dirt had been cleared away, according to the sheriff.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• During that time, the sheriff said, the adults were drinking.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 16 June 2024
• Since the sheriff’s office posted about the skull, it’s made headlines around the world.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• One of those crimes is the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five, the sheriff said.
  — Jillian Sykes, CNN, 17 June 2024
• Woods is the sheriff of Jefferson Davis Parish, and Sgt.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• The sheriff’s office said up to three people were injured in the storm.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, wsj.com, 9 Apr. 2023
• He was fired by the sheriff’s office in the aftermath of the shooting.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
• The sheriff said no buses stopped in the county, the signs have been removed, and there are no plans to put them back up.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• When the sheriff is off the job, the five people in that black-and-white photo never feel too far away.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2022
• The next day, the sheriff’s office responded to a 911 call that two people were lost in the woods.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
• Deputies showed up to the scene and talked the man into dropping the knife, according to the sheriff’s office.
  — Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024
• The 4-year-old brother was shot in the thigh and is in stable condition, the sheriff said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 June 2024
• The boy later told a sheriff’s deputy that three Mexican men had been to the house that night.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2023
• The call came in around 8:45 a.m., and deputies were dispatched to the scene, sheriff’s Lt. Colin Hebeler said.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
• The victim was in the process of jumping when his parachute failed to open, the sheriff's office said.
  — CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
• The sheriff’s office did not say whether any of the three suspects were charged with murder.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
• The man was last seen around 1:30 p.m., according to the sheriff’s office.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 29 May 2025
• Divers on the sheriff’s search-and-rescue team recovered the body.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• Perez-Engel was spotted by a Clay County sheriff’s deputy patrolling the area, Boyd said in the release.
  — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2025
• The pilot and passenger in the Cessna sustained minor injuries and were released at the scene of the crash, sheriff’s officials said.
  — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025