How to Use marshal in a Sentence

marshal

1 of 2 noun
  • The fire marshal’s office has more time on its side now.
    — Gracie Stockton, Twin Cities, 11 Aug. 2025
  • They are also marked with the fire marshal’s seal.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The fire marshal has been impacted by the blast.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
  • The marshal succumbed to his wound two days later.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The fireworks sold by them are safe, sane and given a green light by the state fire marshal.
    — Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • His wife, his 14-year-old son and a marshal had been shot dead during the siege.
    — Daily Briefing, AZCentral.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Fire marshals are still working to determine the cause of the fire.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The fire marshal shut us down, and D couldn’t get into his own party at first.
    — Karen Taylor Bass, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Berlant, the fire marshal, said the point of origin of the fire has been identified.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • So did senior members of the state fire marshal’s office, who were there many times.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Hitchcock said even the local county fire marshal was alarmed.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Fire marshals are working to determine what caused the fire.
    — Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The state fire marshal was called in to investigate.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Fire marshals will investigate the cause of the fire.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • No arrests have been made at this time, and the fire marshal has not yet determined the cause of the fire.
    — Katie Houlis, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The fire marshal has started a blog to help residents of the area stay informed.
    — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The fire marshal had determined that tiki torch fluid was used to start the blaze.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The fire marshal shut the show down the last minute because the venue was over capacity.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 28 July 2023
  • An arena overflowing with fans, thanks maybe to a fire marshal who looked the other way.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The state fire marshal also sets rules about shooting fireworks into or from cars.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • Fire marshals determined that the fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Cammack called Paxton when the marshals showed up to his office.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • His prior post was fire marshal for Brooklyn Park.
    — Gracie Stockton, Twin Cities, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Reardon, the fire marshal, urged Ohioans to learn about fire safety and teach others as well.
    — Molly Walsh | [email protected], cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
  • All the victims have since been discharged, according to the fire marshal.
    — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Even the town’s marshal and fire crews have comic-book-style dinosaur drawings on their patches.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The city's fire marshal has declared the building unsafe to enter.
    — Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The teacher is a school marshal, which is why the educator was armed on campus.
    — Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The fire marshal’s role extends to the point of identifying the area of origin and cause of a fire.
    — Gracie Stockton, Twin Cities, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The person who would normally hire a new fire marshal would be the city manager.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026

marshal

2 of 2 verb
  • She carefully marshaled her thoughts before answering the question.
  • It can be marshaled to support both sides or neither side.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The trick is going to be finding out who gets to marshal that bloc and to what aims.
    — Liz Elting, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • To marshal the forces of science and the forces of hope in the great battles of our time.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Countries use them to marshal resources and waive rules in order to ease a crisis.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The founders invoked slavery as a rallying cry to marshal their forces.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • So why do those who take offense at comedy feel the need to marshal campaigns against the comic?
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Not least, a firm set of guiding principles also helped marshal the unruly cadre on her side of the aisle.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Whoever grabbed market share would be able to marshal the future of e-commerce.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The fires have forced state and federal officials to marshal armies of people and resources at all cost.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Resources are being marshaled to help those who made the expensive pilgrimage to the playa.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Efforts to marshal the funding have been complicated by debates about whether the aid should take the form of loans or grants.
    — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Ballet had already taught her how to marshal control over her gestures, to smooth over her pain for the sake of appearance.
    — Hannah Zeavin, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The students marshaled everyone who was around for the first meeting after the policies passed — about eight teens.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The Thomases are able to marshal resources that would never be available to the staff attending to their needs.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Graff’s success is in marshaling, corralling.
    — Book Marks september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Cunha has been well marshalled by the Arsenal defence.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Analysts point to high turnover rates among blue-collar workers, which stymie efforts to marshal union support.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2022
  • That’s right, all of you cynical souls out there who don’t think the government knows how to marshal its resources to solve the big crises of our time.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 2 Sep. 2021
  • His job is to dream the future, and then to marshal the city’s gargantuan bureaucracy to get those dreams built.
    — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But while cinemas marshal our gaze — from special seats in dark rooms, surrounded by strangers — the movies are largely what keep us there.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
  • This might be where the television medium exceeds the power of orthodoxy to marshal it.
    — Kathryn Reklis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Morales marshaled the latest march from his hideout in Bolivia’s remote tropics.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • Once that’s done, the suspect is expected to be court marshaled, the military official said.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Most nonprofits were working on a case-by-case basis, doubling down on strategies that seemed to work and avoiding those that failed to marshal funds.
    — Robin Ganzert, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Tempe was offering, Molina was finally able to marshal the resources her town needed to fend off the virus.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
  • Here, researchers are paying less attention to weight, and more to how readily a body is able to marshal an anti-pathogen defense.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Unlike many great athletes who’ve made lousy coaches, Sanders knows how to marshal his story not to burnish his past but to build a future.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • His only path is to recoup some of his losses with seniors, and at the same time, marshal a gigantic turnout from his base, says Borick.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
  • And that the collective energy in this dazzling field is marshaled in the cause of better serving the art and the audience.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023

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