How to Use courthouse in a Sentence

courthouse

noun
Definition of courthousenext
  • The courthouse is in the 100 block of Main Street in Kemp.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 19 June 2023
  • He was taken straight from the courthouse to the airport.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The courthouse square buzzes with live music and the din of chatter on a Friday night.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Troy Birk was in the courthouse as the guilty verdicts were returned against Brooks.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The groups were also present to escort the family to the courthouse.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The courthouse is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Across from the courthouse is a floral and collectibles shop called Kreative Kreations.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • With the help of a colleague, Martin pulled records about Gerry’s case from the courthouse in Goderich.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Main Town Square is home to the original 1880 Round Top courthouse.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 17 May 2023
  • Some have pushed off day jobs or moved near to the Washington, DC, courthouse.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The couple were first married at a courthouse last March.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • When the hearing was over, Adams got up, buttoned his suit jacket, and walked out of the courthouse.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The cries of the women outside a Tehran courthouse swell to a collective wail.
    — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Biles and Owens got married on April 22 at a courthouse in Houston.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
  • During breaks, some race to the courthouse lobby to grab a few minutes with their cell phones.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Here's how the scene outside the courthouse unfolded on the day of Trump's arraignment.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the legal experts that stood on the curb outside the courthouse for six years can't – for six weeks can't explain it.
    — CBS News, 2 June 2024
  • The field of grass in front of us was where the courthouse once stood, and the frame a little further down was the skeleton of First National Bank.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The old county courthouse in the center of Jackson, Ga., was turned into the Hawkins Library.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Asked on Tuesday in the hallway of the courthouse if Jane Doe 5 is still part of the case, Thompson declined to comment.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 25 Oct. 2022
  • That’s because the FLDS owned the nearby land until 2020, when it was sold at a courthouse auction.
    — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Outside the courthouse, jurors approached Posey to shake his hand or hug him.
    — Kaye Thornbrugh, Idaho Statesman, 25 May 2024
  • In the photos, the pair are shown exchanging vows in what appears to be a courthouse wedding.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Two days later, a multiracial crowd, angry and armed, stormed the courthouse but failed to free the young Burns, even as a guard was killed.
    — David W. Blight Max-O-Matic, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • That is no small irony, as the 5th Circuit sits in a courthouse named for John Minor Wisdom, one of the heroic judges of the civil rights era.
    — Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Inside the courthouse, a line of people waited outside the council chambers for the doors to open.
    — Jonathan Mattise and Travis Loller, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The two-week proceeding is set to begin Aug. 14 and will take place at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 June 2023
  • The following image includes the couple walking down the steps of the courthouse.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
  • Norton’s Seeger performs this Woody Guthrie classic on the courthouse steps with the press singing along after he was found guilty.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The trial’s location will be at a federal courthouse in Charlotte, N.C.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Dec. 2024

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