How to Use forewoman in a Sentence

forewoman

noun
  • Nunez has worked her way up to be a forewoman of a crew of workers.
    — James Herrera, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
  • Only a few seconds passed, but the forewoman’s mind was racing.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The 40-year-old forewoman, said the jurors who voted against the racial enhancement were black and white.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
  • Three of them, including the forewoman, were questioned on the stand, as was one of the prosecutors who withdrew from the case.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The Chronicle also interviewed the forewoman, who asked as well that her name not be published.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The handmaid forewoman heads to Commander Lawrence's with some novel ideas.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • After the jury forewoman read the verdict, the rapper hugged her attorneys and appeared joyful.
    — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • After the jury forewoman read the verdict, the rapper hugged her attorneys and appeared joyful.
    — Jonathan Landrum Jr., USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
  • After the verdict on Tuesday, the jury forewoman told reporters the case should not have been prosecuted.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2022
  • Trump has repeatedly attacked the forewoman of the jury, who ran for Congress as a Democrat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2020
  • During the conversation, the forewoman gave Yarbray’s father, Karif Roberts, a pamphlet from her church.
    — Mensah M. Dean, Philly.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The process was further complicated when the jury forewoman had to be excused after the second day of deliberations.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2022
  • Most appeared to be in their 20s or 30s, though there were several — including a woman who was the forewoman — who appeared to be middle-aged.
    — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 17 June 2017
  • When the forewoman read the first verdict, Tartaglione — dressed in a gray suit and black shirt, her hair pulled back tightly in a bun — furrowed her forehead, looked down at the defense table, and wrote something down.
    — Philly.com, 23 June 2017
  • Emily Kohrs, the panel’s forewoman, has said the grand jury recommended the indictment of several people.
    — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
  • The grand jury, which recently concluded its work, recommended indictments for multiple people, the forewoman of the jury said.
    — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • But Emily Kohrs, the panel’s forewoman, has said the grand jury recommended the indictment of several people.
    — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But Emily Kohrs, the panel’s forewoman, has said the grand jury recommended the indictment of several people.
    — Holly Bailey, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The forewoman, Emily Kohrs, said the recommendations in the grand jury's report, most of which remains sealed, covered multiple people on a range of charges.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The grand jury's forewoman, a woman by the name of Emily Kohrs, has now embarked on what is a truly bizarre, potentially unethical, countrywide press tour.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The remarks came days after forewoman Emily Kohrs revealed that the grand jury had recommended indictments against several people.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Trump has attacked prosecutors, the jury forewoman, and the federal judge overseeing the trial, casting his former campaign adviser as the victim of a vendetta by law enforcement.
    — Sharon Lafraniere, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The families of the two men who were fatally shot last year were summoned to the courtroom moments before the jury forewoman announced that the jury had unanimously found Rittenhouse innocent.
    — Arluther Lee, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Beth Burbage, the jury forewoman, said in an interview Friday that although most jurors went into the jury room leaning toward guilty but ready to deliberate, juror No.
    — Julia Sclafani, Daily Pilot, 17 Aug. 2019
  • For their part, the jurors, in a statement issued April 30 by the jury forewoman purporting to speak on behalf of the full panel of seven men and five women, asked for privacy and said none of them wished to talk publicly about the case.
    — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
  • According to The Detroit News, persons involved in the case—including the police chief, lead prosecutor and grand jury forewoman—cannot recall details.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 10 May 2018
  • Jury forewoman Dorothy Bailey, a 65-year-old program manager for Navy contracts, however, announced that the not-guilty verdicts were reached in less than a full day of deliberations and the rest of the time was spent on the hung count.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022

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