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Example sentences for: magistrate

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

On the cause of the princess's death in a car crash in Paris, Le Monde rejected all conspiracy theories and said the French investigating magistrate has already concluded it was fundamentally a banal road accident.
If he refuses his permission for them to do so, they will get a W (warrant) from a magistrate or, in some parts, a Panel of experts bench of lay justices.
That's a mystifying charge: Biswas' paranoias, the magistrate's coming apart in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians , the antihero's inability to connect with the world around him in his Life & Times of Michael K , are all directly traceable to the traumas of political change and the individual's need to find stability within it.
Some of the material is international underworld slang: hoist `steal,' beak Brit . `magistrate or judge,' chiseller swindler,' dip `pickpocket,' the rap the punishment, blame, etc.', screw Brit . `prison guard.
As a long-time magistrate (English— now retired), I understood the legal definition of theft was something akin to to take possession permanently and illegally.