How to Use appellant in a Sentence

appellant

noun
  • All appellants have served out their sentences for this case.
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • If not, Murphy said, the judge could expect a lengthy queue of appellants outside his door.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2024
  • City Council members said the issues raised by the appellants were valid.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The appellant wanted equal coverage of his side of the story.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • But for wearing a hoodie, there was no linkage between the appellant and the shooting.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • But the appellants convinced the appeals judges that the district court erred in other ways, forcing the lower court to try again.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Two other appeals listed the same phone number but different appellant names.
    — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 10 May 2018
  • Appeals to the City Council now are based only specific points raised by the appellant.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The adult appellants in the lawsuit are Hilliard's grandmother, mother and brother.
    — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • But Grace Menke, who was a Yale rower, and her nine objectors-appellants face challenging odds.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • After the ruling was issued, the sidewalk outside the Supreme Court filled with the lawyers and appellants in the case, smiling dizzily.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The appellant challenging the city's issuance of the permit argued the property didn't have adequate off-street parking.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Fire danger is another important concern, said the lead appellant, Link Ladutko.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Should the board side with the appellant, the state would have to re-enter into the vendor solicitation and RFP process.
    — Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • The appellants took issue with sections of the city’s municipal code that stipulate which findings allow for the approval of tree removal permits.
    — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The plaintiffs in the Canna Provisions case argued in their appellant briefs to the First Circuit that this is no longer the case.
    — Zack Huffman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But on Friday, one group of appellants asked for that decision, made by a three-judge panel, to be reviewed by the full panel of all 6th Circuit judges.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Among other issues, appellants complained that scoring rules were inconsistent and confusing.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • What appellants actually seek is recognition of a novel right to exclude transgender people from common areas of restrooms and locker rooms.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 July 2019
  • The appellants have argued since the circuit court ruling that the campus area maps and textual descriptions of campus areas that are to be patrolled by Hopkins police don’t match.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
  • With the city council at the time uninterested in passing an amendment, the residents had no choice but to donate their birds to a farm, said Blake Brasher, one of the appellants.
    — Maliya Ellis, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • An appeal bond is a sum of money that the appellant — in this case, the Boise State administrators — must provide to ensure the damages will be paid if the appeal is not successful.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Giarrusso sided with the lawsuit's defendants nine months ago, granting an exception of no cause of action on the bystander relief claim, and dismissing all claims brought by the appellants.
    — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • If the appeals court affirms the conviction, the handbook says the appellant can then petition the United States Supreme Court for a certiorari review.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • In an appeal of a preliminary injunction, the appellant (the party making the appeal) must establish that the judge incorrectly applied the law in deciding to grant the injunction.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The restraint order passed by the respondent pursuant to the ad interim order and the confirmatory order restraining the appellant from functioning as a managing director is set aside.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The attorneys questioned the validity of petition signatures and the legitimacy of the appellants.
    — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 10 May 2018
  • Visual presentations, such as PowerPoint slides or videos, will only be allowed by project applicants and appellants on land use and adjudicatory matters.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The appellants assert that the agreement is fraught with provisions that contradict itself and the 2019 legislation that allowed Hopkins to start the creation of its own armed police force.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The appellant shall, however, cooperate in the investigation.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'appellant.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: