How to Use clerk in a Sentence

clerk

1 of 2 noun
  • Have the court clerk file your request with the judge.
  • He works as a clerk in a local pet store.
  • Davis asks her clerk to print out a map.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The clerk was not hit by gunfire.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2026
  • Store clerks were coming down with measles.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • Check with your county clerk to find out where.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The clerk handed me my key, still made of brass.
    — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The clerk called Gray’s number.
    — Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The clerk also says your credit is shot!
    — Jack Handey, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • To find out where your clerk's drop box locations click here.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The new hire would be assigned to the city clerk’s office.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2026
  • Soon, his clerk passed out copies hot off the printer to reporters.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Nguyen, 58, has served as clerk-recorder since 2013.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
  • Loving is the third clerk the town has had since 2024.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The gas station was open at the time and the clerk was working inside.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The attackers robbed what was then a clothing store and killed two clerks.
    — Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Cunningham has served as the county’s clerk for more than two decades.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • That belief is guiding the work of the clerk’s office.
    — Monica Gordon, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
  • The court found that the court clerk's actions denied him a fair trial.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • Gorsuch will have had dozens of clerks by the end of his tenure on the Court.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • If that’s the case, courthouse clerks can often help find and upload records.
    — Amber Gaudet updated February 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The clerk hands him bills from the register, which the robber scoops up then walks out.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • One of those clerks served only two-and-a-half months before the transfer.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Arnela works as a records clerk at Seneca High School.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The appointment as clerk lasts through next year’s election.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Hurd came to help Jungwirth, and both hit the clerk’s head, the complaint said.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Moments later, a clerk startled them, the teens said.
    — Larry Seward, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Groups of us were told to wait in another line to finally see a clerk.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The clerk was not injured, and there were no customers in the store at the time of the robbery.
    — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • She has been ordered to surrender any passport to the clerk of court.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2026

clerk

2 of 2 verb
  • The sales clerk behind the counter may not always offer the best advice.
    — Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Hostin clerked for a Maryland state judge whose proceedings were filmed.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The fact that Kavanaugh clerked for Kennedy probably won't help on that front.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • Sneak soon joined the legion of Gramaphone employees who clerked by day, and spun at clubs by night.
    — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Deputy Clerk Kathy Strube has taken on all clerking duties for now.
    — Brittany Seemuth, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Jimmy also knows from the gas station clerk that Michael was there and erased the surveillance footage.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Special Forces turned records clerk, turned companion on the journey to health and justice.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Kavanaugh clerked for Kennedy in 1993 and remains close to the justice.
    — Michael Kranish and Ann E. Marimow, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • Once one of Rehnquist's law clerks at the high court, Roberts could be juggling the same two jobs as his former boss soon.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 29 May 2019
  • The former law clerks attribute this to the court's collegial character.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The general counsels of both Apple and Facebook once clerked at the high court.
    — James Warren, The Hive, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Only one, Kim Jackson, clerked for him before his appointment to the court.
    — Fox News, 9 June 2019
  • The law clerks for federal judges are the best and brightest graduates of American law school.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2018
  • The law clerks for federal judges are the best and brightest graduates of American law schools.
    — Alvin Chang, Vox, 28 Sep. 2018
  • But Kennedy scheduled his reunion of law clerks a year earlier than usual, on the last weekend in June.
    — Mark Sherman, The Seattle Times, 4 May 2017
  • Nine of them went on to clerk at the Supreme Court, according to statistics compiled by his former clerks.
    — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Four of them clerked for the Supreme Court's most conservative justice, Clarence Thomas.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 6 May 2018
  • The Columbus Days Inn clerk who escaped her attacker described him as about 6 feet tall with greasy hair and a beard spotted with gray.
    — Staff, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Kethledge, who clerked for Kennedy at the Supreme Court 20 years ago, also was a contender last year for the open seat that went to Gorsuch and is among the favorites this time around.
    — Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
  • The first part of the hearing concerned former Colleton Court county clerk Becky Hill, who clerked during Murdaugh’s trial and later wrote a tell-all book about it.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • My first job in Law School was clerking in the AG’s office in the Prosecutor’s Assistance division.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
  • My first job in Law School was clerking in the AG’s office in the Prosecutor’s Assistance division.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Prager clerked for a prestigious judge, and then, over the course of decades of argument, successfully petitioned both the Massachusetts and New York Bars to admit him.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Campbell previously clerked for the Honorable Gerald Schroeder of the Idaho Supreme Court.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Hurst previously clerked for the Utah Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and taught at Brigham Young University.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Wang, who clerked for two former Supreme Court justices, has said her American citizenship was made possible by the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship guarantee and by changes to laws that had restricted Asian immigration.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Whether clerking for the DA’s office as a law student and trying a few cases under the supervision of Deputy DAs counts as being a former prosecutor depends on the norms of the profession – the opinion of the profession appears to be unanimously against Slaten.
    — Rafael Perez, Daily News, 25 May 2026
  • Melanie Verdecia of Tampa, a member of the Florida Bar since 2016, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente in 2016-19.
    — Melanie Verdecia, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026

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