lawman in English

noun
1
a law-enforcement officer, especially a sheriff.
The protesters sought police protection but a high-ranking officer ordered lawmen to withdraw and allowed the attackers to set upon the demonstrators.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "lawman" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "lawman", or refer to the context using the word "lawman" in the English Dictionary.

1. You're too late, lawman.

2. He was a man with a backbone, a lawman...

3. I've been a lawman for 25 years, worked every hellhole in the territory.

4. Antonyms for Culprit include police, law, law-abiding citizen, policeman, policewoman, cop, officer, lawman, patrolman and patrolwoman

5. That rancher sat in that jailhouse, sneering and letting his lawman lay down the law till he figured it was time to show us that he gave the orders around here.

6. At an impromptu poker game, he encounters the ill-tempered gambler Angel (Alfred Molina), the young con artist Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster), and lawman Marshal Zane Cooper (James Garner).

7. The swinging lawman from Warwick is a jazz Afficionado who took up the trumpet by chance as a teenager when he heard a solo by the great Ziggy Elman on the reverse of a Tommy Dorsey record