Lord Chief Justice
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Hale, a Puritan sympathizer and later Lord Chief Justice of England, sent two women to their doom as “witches” after a trial in 1664.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024
Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett – the most senior judge in England and Wales – disagreed with his two colleagues.
From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2023
The soon-to-retire Lord Chief Justice disagreed, concluding that it was unlikely this would ever happen.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2023
Lord Burnett, the Lord Chief Justice for England and Wales, welcomed the change in the law.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2022
He was created a Baron in 1894, on his becoming Lord Chief Justice: but the title was—at his own desire—limited to a life-peerage, and consequently at his death in 1900 became extinct.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
