inquest

How To Use inquest In A Sentence

• This week Professor Hay will attend an inquest in Leeds into his wife's death at which he hopes to raise concerns about the safety of the drug.
• An inquest heard that the fire started after friends of Mr Wright lit candles in his flat while he had gone out drinking with a friend.
• If the executors do not appear, but the claimant can prove by inquest that the testator bequeathed him the tenement, it shall be delivered to him.
• High speed cost a new driver his life when his car careered out of control and struck a tree, a North Yorkshire inquest was told.
• Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
• He was also three times over the drink-drive limit, his inquest was told. Times, Sunday Times
• In her opinion the incidents described at the inquest were not necessarily related to the school, but had links with the local community.
• An inquest was opened and adjourned at Oxford coroner's court. The Sun
• We do not relish the idea of going through another inquest, and no doubt neither does anyone else involved.
• His family declined to comment as they left the inquest. Times, Sunday Times