sheriff
IPA: ʃˈɛrʌf
noun
- (Britain, except Scotland) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
- (Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
- (US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.
- An English surname originating as an occupation.
verb
- To carry out the duties of a sheriff
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Examples of "sheriff" in Sentences
- The sheriff oversees the auction.
- The sheriff comes up with a devious plan.
- The squatter murdered the sheriff's deputy.
- The merchant sued the sheriff to return the goods.
- The sheriff agency was divided into the courts and the jails.
- So they come to Pima County where the sheriff is a total wuss.
- The girl was supposedly the widow of the sheriff of Carmarthen.
- Lois McCreedy is the Sheriff of the Crestfallen Police Department.
- The Sheriff is considered the highest police official in the county.
- At the time of the abduction, Turner was a High Sheriff of Cheshire.
- In 1889, the jurisdiction of the sheriffs was restricted to the City.
- What: A West Texas deputy sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.
- I should say I also suspect the sheriff is our serial killer of fangbangers.
- And the West Redneckistan in which I currently reside, where teh "sheriff" is an active klansman.
- The Cook County sheriff is doing no one a service, not the tax payers, not the sex workers targeted.
- These idiots are the problem, and they dont like the fact that the sheriff is an N-word, and telling them what they need to do PERIOD
- Suppose the sheriff is after a mass murderer in your community, and he knows the guilty party is hanging out in the hills just outside of town.
- _that_ law and _that_ oath, compelled to canvass and estimate votes, however fraudulently obtained, which should be delivered into the secretary's office _by any person styling_ himself sheriff, though it should at the same time be evident to them that he was _not the sheriff_.
- Convince a conservative that some southern sheriff is really using racial profiling as an excuse to harass black people and you will find that conservatives are just as outraged as anyone, but the mere potential for this to occur is no argument against racial profiling any more than the potential for a policeman to abuse his authority is an argument against having policemen.