How to Use disbar in a Sentence

disbar

verb
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  • How eight of his closest associates have been sentenced to prison and many more have been disbarred or otherwise shamed?
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024
  • The State Bar is in the process of disbarring Mr. Connell.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Moore was disbarred in Ohio in May and in Kentucky in 2016.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • If these claims are proven true, he could be disbarred.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Then she is disbarred in the state of New York, saving Mike and Harvey one last time.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The court said that was not enough punishment and that Coulter must be disbarred.
    — Bill Rankin, ajc, 18 June 2018
  • The Georgia Bar held a trial for Wood in May to determine whether to disbar him.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Murdaugh, who has been disbarred, admitted to the thefts, which could carry decades in prison, on the stand last week.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Cohen pleaded guilty, served prison time and was disbarred.
    — Michelle L. Price, Jill Colvin, Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • He was ultimately disbarred in New York for his actions in the case.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Researchers have found that women in law are disbarred at almost twice the rate men are in the event of a violation.
    — Reshma Saujani, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • He was disbarred from practicing law, but spent only four months of his six-year sentence in prison.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 9 May 2023
  • Most of his legal work was as a personal injury lawyer until he was forced out of the firm and then disbarred in July last year.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Franks called on the State Bar of Arizona to disbar Adel for her and her office’s role in pursuing felony charges against protesters.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The verdict clearing Jackson was a defeat for the state bar, which filed a complaint in 2015 seeking to disbar Jackson.
    — Maurice Possley, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • Now, Girardi stands disgraced, disbarred and charged in two states with bilking his clients.
    — Siobhan O'Driscoll, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • And earlier this month, a court panel called for Giuliani to be disbarred for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Gaddy went to law school and became an attorney, but he was disbarred in 1990 and convicted of a string of felonies in the ensuing years.
    — USA Today, 25 July 2023
  • But he’s already sued us, and lost badly, 14 times, including having one of his lawyers disbarred.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The county wound up paying out tens of millions of dollars in settlement money to Arpaio and Thomas’ victims, and Thomas was disbarred.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Alex Murdaugh is—or at least was, before he was disbarred—a talented trial lawyer.
    — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In 2016, Nurmi was disbarred on allegations of an ethical breach for writing a book about the case.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • Foote ran in 2000 and beat Gustafson, who faced multiple inquiries into her conduct and was later disbarred.
    — oregonlive.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Martinez agreed to end his 30-year career as a prosecutor and be disbarred because of State Bar complaints against him.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2023
  • Earlier this month, disgraced and disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the killings of his wife and son.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Going forward, the Oregon State Bar could seek to have Day disbarred as a lawyer or otherwise disciplined.
    — Aimee Green, OregonLive.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The report states that defense attorneys in five cases had either been or would go on to be suspended or disbarred.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • The State Bar filed disciplinary charges against Yeghiayan and made an unsuccessful attempt to disbar his wife.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Schlossberg’s law office has since been flooded with negative reviews online, as well as calls for him to be disbarred.
    — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 16 May 2018
  • Both men were also previously disbarred by the Guardian Council.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 June 2024

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