Example sentences for: sheriff

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

  • We used to call a work permit an A card, but since Metro was formed [Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, combining city and county police], we just call it and the fifty card a sheriff's card.

  • In the Muslim world, the Pakistani daily Dawn announced a "new American doctrine of unilateral brinkmanship" by which the United States claimed to be sole "international sheriff, judge and hangman, all at one and the same time."

  • Mo Tilden (De Niro) explains the situation to Sheriff Freddy Heflin (Stallone)

  • Sheriff Woody would understand.

  • The Law impressed a special meaning on many Anglo-Saxon words-- manslaughter, sheriff, theft, hearsay, bench (judge's), strike (motion to), landlord, freehold (in land), and herein --which they retain to this day.


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