sheriff
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The sheriff said that he was imposing a sentence at the upper end of his sentencing powers.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The sheriff evacuated 60,000 people out of a portion of Spokane in a matter of two hours without injury or accident,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The sheriff added, “This case is not cold.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
The new county sheriff dropped even a pretense of investigating the crimes.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
In the nearly 30 years since, state attorneys general have gone from being local sheriffs chasing local criminals to potent political forces on the state and federal scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Security at Mar-a-Lago is extremely tight, with an outer cordon of local Palm Beach sheriffs and an inner one maintained by the Secret Service.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
As one of the sheriffs on the tour said to me, “Generally, autopsies don’t lie.”
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
Allen peppered me with a running commentary on the TBI investigation and his view of the corrupt nature of sheriffs, especially in Pusser’s day.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
I’d heard of sheriffs and marshals, but had never seen one.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
