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US
/ˈkɑnstəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /kˈɒnstəbəl/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒnstəbəl/ ]
NOUN
- a lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff
- a police officer of the lowest rank
How To Use constable In A Sentence
- Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
- Set inside the Void, this story follows the life of Edeard, a young 'shaper' whose life is changed forever by a cataclysmic event and he finds his way to the great city of Makkatheren where he enters the service of the constables. Archive 2007-08-01
- Orford was held by a royal constable, and was built next to what was at the time a major port.
- The chief constable applied for an order of mandamus directing the justice to rehear the case.
- The mere fact, if it be a fact, that the constable reasonably thought that a breach of the peace was likely did not in my judgment justify the arrest of the bailiff.
- He had seen that stare directed at errant Constables and felt a stir of pity for her.
- During his time there he worked as a patrol officer and community constable.
- A scuffle on Friday night ended in a police constable sustaining a fractured hand.
- Is there no constable, nor headborough, though, to take me out of his house? for I am sure I can safely swear the peace against him: But, alas! he is greater than any constable: he is a justice himself: Such a justice deliver me from! — Pamela