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How to use sergeant-at-arms in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sergeant-at-arms? Here are some examples.

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Mr. Gainer, the sergeant-at-arms, said he believed that five to seven officers had fired.
He who then ordered the Senate's sergeant-at-arms to remove all staplers from the Capitol building and congressional offices.
I drove from Edmonton to St. John's and visited with a sergeant-at-arms in each province and they all said they liked the project.
They had met in 1856 when he was a messenger in the Iowa House of Representatives and she, a sometime politician, was its sergeant-at-arms.
After the meeting, he announced that the Alliance's sergeant-at-arms would be teaching a class on close-quarters combat for anyone interested.
A report by the Senate sergeant-at-arms earlier this year faulted two of the committee chairman's former employees for the intrusion.
He went on to work as a probation officer and then sergeant-at-arms for the Pennsylvania House.
All branches should have a sergeant-at-arms, a service officer and a chaplain.
The sergeant-at-arms shall perform such duties as may be required by the president or the board of directors.
I went to see the committee chair and the sergeant-at-arms, who was then Mr. Cloutier.
The Sheriff naively walked into the senate chamber, announced his purpose, and was promptly arrested by the acting sergeant-at-arms.
The lawmaker struck the sergeant-at-arms as House members were trying to silence impeachment supporters in the gallery before the scuffle.
The Court merely sent a two-sentence message to the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives the afternoon of the speech.
He had a hospital bed installed in the office of the sergeant-at-arms.
The sergeant-at-arms ordered quiet amid the pounding of a gavel.
After several minutes of waiting, the rather portly sergeant-at-arms sauntered into the room with an air of superiority far too concentrated for his station in life.
The lawmaker asked the sergeant-at-arms to initiate steps for their release, which the latter refused, saying it is the jurisdiction of the speaker.
MacKay also had been a bagpiper and the sergeant-at-arms of the inland Empire Emerald Society.
It was entirely appropriate for the chairman of that committee to call the sergeant-at-arms and the Capitol Police so order in the committee could be maintained.
Examples from Classical Literature
That authorized the sergeant-at-arms to arrest any recalcitrant senators and bring them to the chamber so that work could resume.
He stood at the door of The guesser's cubicle, accompanied by a sergeant-at-arms.
The sergeant-at-arms asked me if I should like to have some breadfruit.
I had the pleasure of observing an excellent presentation on the security of constituency offices while attending the Canadian Sergeant-at-Arms Conference in British Columbia.
We especially are grateful to the Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers, for his prompt action and clear mind in killing the shooter, thereby saving many innocent lives.
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