Example Sentences

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“Would be nice to avoid a second Anthony Wright-type case and get a nolo contendere” — a plea of no contest — a city lawyer wrote to a colleague.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2019

In 1977, Helms pleaded nolo contendere to misdemeanor charges of failing to testify “fully, completely, and accurately” before a Senate committee.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2018

Others found his plea of essentially nolo contendere to be tantamount to an admission of doping.

From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 24, 2012

Another ad wove in a litany of Latin phrases, such as, “Don Beyer is the nolo contendere dealer.”

From Washington Post

For there are not a few on this continent of ours, whom the Avvocata del Diavolo would certainly expect to enter a nolo contendere, who stand in much need of a healthy animalism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various