How to Use justice of the peace in a Sentence

justice of the peace

noun phrase
  • The justice of the peace talked about the Bottone case in the courtroom.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • We were married by a justice of the peace with my parish priest as a witness and were very happy.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The next month, the two were married by a justice of the peace in Fort Worth.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • The session with the justice of the peace wasn’t until the next afternoon.
    — Andrew Martin, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The rules require, too, that bail hearing before a judge or justice of the peace be held promptly.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 14 Dec. 2025
  • County records listed Hearne as the Precinct 1 justice of the peace.
    — Jj Velasquez, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2026
  • Races for the school board, Board of Regents and justices of the peace are also on the ballot.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
  • Their wedding ceremony was to be a very private stand-up event with a justice of the peace, and then off to the first day of class.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Services there include a passport office, a justice of the peace court and a constable’s office.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 3 July 2023
  • The new positions include four death investigators to help the justices of the peace.
    — Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 28 Aug. 2024
  • Chatfield, who grew up in Prospect, is also a justice of the peace with many weddings to officiate this time of year.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • One justice of the peace, Justin Knight, abstained from the vote due to having business with data centers.
    — Ainsley Platt, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
  • The justice of the peace worries that lack of access to broadband will lower the region's property values.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The death and Lynch’s identity were confirmed by Nikol Endres, a justice of the peace in the area.
    — Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • In late April, after Rambo failed to respond to the case, the justice of the peace ruled in Doyle’s favor.
    — Emily Brindley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2024
  • The Quorum Court is the legislative body of county government and its members are called justices of the peace.
    — Mike Jones, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Oropesa’s next court appearance won’t be until after he’s indicted, which isn’t expected for weeks, the justice of the peace said.
    — Ed Lavandera, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • Each justice of the peace represents a district within the county of roughly equal population.
    — Mike Jones, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
  • DeLeon said that the time of death is still unknown and that the Brazos County justice of the peace has ordered an autopsy.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Lillie McMullen, justice of the peace for District 5, asked about how deputies could be deployed faster to service calls.
    — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In Texas, identifying the dead is usually left to local justices of the peace, most of whom are understaffed and underfunded.
    — Ananda Rose, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2013
  • Pahrump is a small town not far from the California state line, at the southernmost tip of Nye County where Fiore is a justice of the peace.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • The police recovered spent Lake City casings after a former justice of the peace killed a Texas district attorney and his wife.
    — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • He was released on his own recognizance after being arraigned by a justice of the peace Thursday night, and is due back in court July 18.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Any justice of the peace—or even a member of a community—could come forward and demand that people posing a danger post a financial bond to guarantee their good behavior.
    — Saul Cornell / Made By History, TIME, 26 July 2024
  • Enslavers or their agents needed little evidence to get Ohio judges or local justices of the peace to order people who were alleged to have escaped from slavery arrested.
    — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Kelly’s husband, Steve—who a few years after all this happened was one of many National Guardsmen sent to Iraq—served as a justice of the peace for nine years.
    — Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Recount results in a justice of the peace primary separated by just three votes in 2022 were unveiled in court about a week after initial results were certified.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The race has become mired in legal questions that Curry, the incumbent, said could disrupt the office responsible for serving legal papers and acting as bailiffs in justice of the peace courts.
    — Tracey McManus, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • As a Texas Ranger responsible for high-profile cases in small towns, Salinas routinely received calls, usually from sheriff’s deputies and justices of the peace.
    — Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024

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