sheriff
Example Sentences
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While there was no initial indication that Nancy Guthrie could have been targeted because of her name, the sheriff has said "we can't dismiss that".
From BBC
The mayor and the board members and the sheriff all looked relieved until Upton added, “Pay me ten thousand dollars and I’ll stop right now!”
From Literature
On Tuesday, the sheriff said investigators still “don’t know where she is” and called for anyone who had had contact with her to come forward.
From Los Angeles Times
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was first reported missing in Arizona on Sunday, and the sheriff’s department is treating the disappearance as a crime.
Johnson, 55, known in his playing days as “Big Kev,” was found dead after sheriff’s deputies on Jan. 21 got a call of an unconscious man at a homeless encampment where he had been living.
From Los Angeles Times
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