How to Use courtroom in a Sentence

courtroom

noun
  • Some in the courtroom gallery wiped tears from their eyes.
    — Rebecca Boone, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • But Carroll’s case is the first to make it to a courtroom.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
  • For years, hip-hop lyrics have been weaponized in courtrooms across the U.S.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • At the start of the hearing, the judge warned the audience to keep decorum in the courtroom.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • As the judge spoke, Norma Espinoza cried in the front row of the courtroom.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022
  • The courtroom was silent and thick with tension as the judge compared the rounds.
    — Josh Campbell, CNN, 12 July 2024
  • The first week of the trial featured fireworks in and out of the courtroom.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
  • Jurors were not in the courtroom to hear the tense exchange.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Parents and friends of the victims of the mass shooting leave the courtroom.
    — Victoria Ballard, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2022
  • The teen was in the courtroom as part of a field trip when King called her out for sleeping.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • What ensues is a drama that takes place in the home, in the courtroom, and in the public eye.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Outside the courtroom, Gibbs declined to address the specifics of the case.
    — Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The judge had bailiffs take Brooks to the alternate courtroom.
    — Todd Richmond, ajc, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Two sheriff's deputies then pull Comstock away and out of the courtroom, the video shows.
    — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2022
  • And there was something in courtroom footage about the way people spoke.
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The movie is largely set in drab Arkham and a stately courtroom.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Her guilty plea came on the day she was slated to go to trial in a Vista courtroom.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The rest of the mothers gathered outside the courtroom, waiting to be let in.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Flores, surely, can’t wait to see them in the courtroom.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Gasps rang through the courtroom, and many of the Guardipees’ family members sobbed.
    — Emma Epperly, Idaho Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The first case was heard in a Cobb County courtroom on Tuesday.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 12 July 2022
  • De Niro was not present in the courtroom when the decision was announced.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Griggsby will next hear from the lawyers in a courtroom.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2022
  • The men looked beaten and injured as they were brought into the courtroom.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The judge denied the defense's motion, and Lori remained in the courtroom.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Paltrow’s lawyer griped to the judge Wednesday about a camera in the courtroom that was trained on his client’s face.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The moment the judge began describing it all again, Nicole ran out of the courtroom in tears.
    — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That is why much of our politics now takes place in a courtroom.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the courtroom Monday, both Maldonado’s and Elijah’s families filled rows of seats on opposite sides of the gallery.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The courtroom emptied quickly with attorneys and the few family members in the courtroom leaving quickly to avoid the media.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025

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