How to Use litigant in a Sentence

litigant

noun
  • Hers was a vote that litigants had to have, but could never take for granted.
    — Fred Barbash, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This won’t be the last time that the court is tempted by a litigant’s narrative.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 July 2022
  • And the litigant probably doesn’t know what the hell is going on.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
  • That means that the courts of appeals are the courts of last resort for thousands of litigants each year.
    — Eric N. Waltenburg, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • There are few litigants besides the nation’s largest bank that could afford to pay such costs.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Most all courts have a large shelf to separate the litigants from the judge keeping them about four feet away from the bench.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The request came without prompting from any of the litigants.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2020
  • In those states, litigants appeal directly to the state supreme court.
    — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But not very much,’ evoked laughter, even from the potential litigant.
    — Anne M. Hamilton, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • But its chief litigant is vowing to appeal up to the Supreme Court.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • So long as litigants submit all the paperwork, courts must agree to hear their cases.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • For decades, the pearl case has dragged on in court, as litigants have tried to finally force a sale and get their money back.
    — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • These briefs can give judges different perspectives on a case than the litigants’ briefs do.
    — Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Anyone who has worked around the courts knows there’s no other way to handle a litigant in the throes of delusion.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • But judges and litigants are effective in weeding out those who have heard of the case before they are picked for the jury.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The justices, after all, set their own agenda by picking from the broad menu of cases that litigants send their way.
    — Aziz Huq, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2023
  • One suspects the presence of a lawyer’s red pen, striking out the names of potential litigants.
    — Charles C. Mann, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Supreme Court opinions, however, are not just written for the litigants but for the ages.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
  • But litigants and their lawyers are pitted against one another on opposite sides.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Think about a judge reading that a colleague was gunned down in his own driveway by a disappointed litigant.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Frustrated litigants may or may not be the best source to expound on the performance of guardianship judges.
    — Jc Hallman, Oklahoma Watch, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Just days later, litigants around the country are already taking aim at some rules with new motions and filings.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • But Battle is a prolific litigant, often from behind bars and rarely with the help of a lawyer.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The reaction from both litigants was predictable.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
  • Lawyers, litigants, and the justices themselves appear to have sought to avoid such ambiguous outcomes this term.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
  • Most lawsuits start in circuit court, but litigants can ask the Supreme Court to take a case directly.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2019
  • He's been a very active litigant in cases that are designed to punish and to push back on the coverage in these spaces.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The timing of Twitter’s icon change to the Doge suggests that Musk is trolling the litigants.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The Court is not oblivious to the potential toll of such scrutiny on any litigant.
    — Kara Scannell, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • However, in some cases, litigants and their lawyers must make the effort to find their own interpreters and often the client must pay the cost.
    — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017

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