Example Sentences
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Before letting us start, the track marshals made us take down the GoPro camera attached to the windshield, which would otherwise have been pointed at my horrified face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Federal marshals had investigated more than a thousand threats against judges in the previous five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Three US marshals stood behind him, and one was at his side, while the federal prosecutor handling the case, US Attorney for Washington Jeanine Pirro, looked on.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Local fire marshals, fire chiefs and firefighting unions have, by and large, opposed easing staircase requirements in the building code wherever they’ve been proposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
In 1962 he had sent U.S. marshals to Oxford, Mississippi, to enforce James Meredith’s enrollment into the University of Mississippi.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
