sheriff

Example Sentences

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This would have likely prompted further investigations for appropriate antibiotic treatment to treat the infection, the sheriff added.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

As things stand right now, that could mean Chad Bianco, the mustachioed sheriff of Riverside County versus British-American political strategist Steve Hilton.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Bornman believes a new sheriff is key to recruiting.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

When they were moved from their makeshift encampment by sheriff officers later that month, they set up a new camp a few metres away.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann