Example sentences for: barrister

How can you use “barrister” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Times described the march as "a public relations triumph" and attributed much of its success to one of its organizers, Chicago-born Eric Bettelheim, "a wealthy barrister who works for an American law firm in London," who was credited with supplying "much of the ideological drive and marketing expertise."

  • More to the point, Mamet can have himself a whale of a time directing a series of civilized confrontations that escalate in importance--from the young man who asks Winslow senior for his daughter's hand in marriage (and the precise amount of her dowry) to a cunning barrister, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who uses every rhetorical trick he can think of to wear down a Parliament weary of a twopenny schoolboy scandal.

  • When he gets to the nick he will then holler for a brief of an entirely different kind, namely his lawyer--a solicitor; and if the case goes as far as court, the brief will very likely have engaged a mouthpiece --in Britain a barrister, in the USA a trial lawyer--to speak for him.

  • Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its clichéd depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending.

  • Maennerchor Society $1,000 or more Dean's Council $ 500 -999 Barrister's Club $ 250 -499 Law School Associates $ 100 -249


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