How to Use magistrate in a Sentence

magistrate

noun
  • The magistrate should have been able to look at that.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The magistrate judge doesn't have the final word in the case.
    — CBS News, 16 July 2019
  • In fact, the bank told her, her account had a hold on it from the magistrate court.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Her goal is to become a magistrate.
    — Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The magistrate on the case entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Nell just wants to evade capture long enough to find an honest magistrate to clear her name.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The clerk magistrate agreed with the defense team that Todd was not a flight risk.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • When are magistrates going to keep bad guys behind bars?
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The collapse of the magistrate echoes that of empire.
    — Rabih Alameddine september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of it, the magistrate permitted the case to go to trial.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • If no judge is available, the police would be able to get approval from a magistrate.
    — Tyler Arnold, Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2020
  • His next court date was not listed on the Cobb magistrate website.
    — Ben Brasch, ajc, 14 May 2018
  • Police lodge a case and the city magistrate seizes and locks the property.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 9 Nov. 2019
  • The county’s contract with the city for magistrate judges expires at the end of the year.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 5 June 2019
  • The magistrate went inside while the three judges waited in the parking lot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The magistrate went inside while the three judges waited in the parking lot.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The magistrate never got the job and retired later that year.
    — Sylvie Corbet, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • By now, a new magistrate had arrived in Namwon.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • In medieval times, one might be sent on a pilgrimage by a magistrate as a sentence for a crime.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Bartow pleaded not guilty and the case went to trial before a magistrate judge.
    — Denise Lavoie, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
  • The phrase stunned both the victim’s family and the magistrates.
    — Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 1 May 2025
  • Then, the magistrate used a mechanism to reveal the marbles one by one.
    — Ariel Procaccia, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Dewitt said she was left with no option but to go to court to file with a magistrate a petition for her son to get help.
    — Kaitlyn Morris, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The notice would have given her the option to have a hearing before a clerk magistrate.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The court initially planned to release him to a shelter, but his mother told the magistrate he should be locked up.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025
  • When the magistrate left the room at the end of the hearing, many people in the packed public gallery broke into applause.
    — NBC News, 1 May 2018
  • At that point, the magistrate would determine if Spacey could be released on bail to await a trial.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 13 June 2022
  • During that time, magistrates have set both secured and unsecured bonds.
    — Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
  • During that time, magistrates have set both secured and unsecured bonds.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The next month, a federal magistrate judge sent him to federal prison for 12 months and a day.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 Mar. 2020

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