How to Use solicitor in a Sentence

solicitor

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  • If not, the solicitor gets to slap him across the face.
    — Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
  • My rule of thumb is simple: The more pressure the solicitor applies, the greater the reason to avoid them.
    — John F. Wasik, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Darnell Ingram, deputy solicitor for the city, told the board the settlement is in the best interest of the city.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2021
  • They are all set in Bombay in the early ‘20s and are about the first female solicitor in India.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The mayor and the city solicitor were not available Thursday to comment on the lawsuit.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The police chief is a Black woman, as is the municipal judge and the court solicitor.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • His mother, Bernice, who’d met James in law school, stayed home with the kids and then, at fifty, passed the bar for a second time and went to work as a county solicitor.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Once that's done, the measure will go back to the City of Cincinnati, where the city solicitor will write the ballot language summary and matching law.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The husband went outside to intervene and the solicitor pushed the woman.
    — Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • The second time was when my father, who worked as a solicitor, was invited to a garden party at the Palace.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022
  • And right now there is a state solicitor filing appeals and motions for stays under your name.
    — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Cincinnati city solicitor, the city's top lawyer, declined to comment Thursday night.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Police received a complaint of the door-to-door solicitor, who was seen riding a Segway.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 28 June 2021
  • The 41-year-old then decided to leave acting behind to study law and became a solicitor.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The solicitor claims to be with the US Census Bureau, but is an insurance salesman.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Two days later, Moore texted Robinson, urging him to speak with the city solicitor's office about his interest in the job.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The city solicitor found no wrongdoing from Mosby and said the guidelines were unclear.
    — Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2021
  • In response to the report, Jim Shea, the city solicitor, said the law department will close the compromised checking account.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2022
  • But his spokesperson said the mayor asked the solicitor’s office to compile the list of troubled complexes.
    — Alan Judd, ajc, 15 July 2022
  • Officers were dispatched to the area in reference to a solicitor going door to door.
    — Houston Chronicle, 15 June 2020
  • When the 43-year-old solicitor from Newent, England, recalls baking with her mother, no images come to mind.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • It's filed in probate court, but prosecuted by the city solicitor, who has the discretion to turn down the complaint or move forward.
    — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • There is a standard fee of £593 to process an application but that is before solicitor fees.
    — Marc Shoffman, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Matthew Garbark, director of public works, and Jim Shea, the city’s solicitor.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2021
  • In the story, an older man, a solicitor, has responded to the narrator’s ad.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Hugh Thirlway was born in London in 1937, studied law in Cambridge and worked as a solicitor (attorney) for some time.
    — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Both suggested this was not a challenge for the department alone, with Bredar urging the acting city solicitor to bring these concerns to the mayor.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2023
  • While a parent who let a child access a gun could now be charged under this law, the new ordinance would spell out the offense, according to the city solicitor's office.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 2 Feb. 2023
  • If mom and baby are finally falling asleep at 10 a.m., and some solicitor rings the doorbell setting off the baby and the dogs, the visitor should go directly to jail.
    — Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
  • In his mid-30s, Hardy married Emma, a solicitor's daughter.
    — The Week Staff, theweek, 6 June 2024

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