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How to use posse in a sentence

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In front of the posse a mime artist sporting a gas mask and grim reaper costume moved ominously above bins covered in toxic waste signs.
The Senate Judiciary Committee agreed that marshals could summon both the militia and regular troops to serve in a posse comitatus.
Jack had a little posse made up of rich kids who thought being rich placed you on a higher plane of existence than the rest of the world.
This time he will be backed up by a posse of local musicians as he belts out the show tunes.
Not to be upstaged by a nutcase, one of the posse whupped out his own roscoe and shot Eddie again.
From out of the blue, a posse of divers with flashguns blazing descends on the scene.
The other main gripe of the research posse is the tendency of IT suppliers to over-egg the pudding.
Soon a small posse of men in black roll into town in big dark luxury car and belly up to the diner counter.
By the time he arrived, he was accompanied by six motorcycle outriders and a posse of huge security guards.
We already have so many regular deputies that we don't really need a posse to actually get rid of the black hats.
In view of the explosive situation, a posse of policemen has been posted in the village.
He can hardly enter a room or alight from a car without a press posse descending, hungry for a photo or off-the-cuff remark.
It turns out it is above the pay grade of a posse member to suggest such things.
The Presley posse had gathered in York to celebrate and commemorate their idol, who died 25 years ago today.
We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins.
Dublin is harbouring a posse of disenfranchised closet cowboys, hollering for a dedicated country music radio service.
A posse of policemen should be appointed to check the scorching pace as well as competition between private buses.
Driving full throttle on his wheel rims, he trundled back to Augusta at 30 mph and meandered through downtown, trailed by a posse of 14 cruisers.
Of course they have to break out of jail, and the posse who is hot on their tail gets turned back by a sniper in the rocks above.
His wound was inflicted by a sheriff's posse pursuing him for an assault upon a farmer's wife.
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Buck and Jessup were there ahead of time, but it was more than an hour later when the posse left perilla.
Dr. Belfrage was a great man in posse, if ever I saw one,a village Hampden.
There were also present one or two reporters, and a posse of the offscourings of Stoneleigh small-boydom.
It is a sort of quaint alteration or catachresis of Possunt quia posse videntur.
Did me and you have a search warrant or a posse comitatus when we rounded up them six Mexican cow thieves down in Hidalgo?
This was the posse comitatus, the force of the county, and was under the command of the sheriff.
No citizen is bound to an active execution of this law, unless called upon as one of the posse comitatus.
It also held that the organized military could be summoned and used by a civil officer as a part of the posse comitatus.
It was at once resolved to direct the sheriffs to raise the posse comitatus.
He had felt it before, when he watched the posse retreat with the body of Bill Dozier.
Last night that posse of mine that you 'skunked,' you know, halted at the cross roads till them sojers went by.
Therefore, none of the posse would have a point-blank shot at him.
The posse would plunge ahead, and he could cut in toward Los Toros.
Tell him to send his posse across the malpais toward the rim-rock.
Mali-ya-bwana and Simba set out with a posse of M'tela's men.
The marshal then summoned a posse comitatus of two thousand men.
The door opened, and the posse comitatus entered with the prisoner.
The posse comitatus was also summoned, and it quickly responded.
We must call out the posse comitatus, and sail with them bodily.
The bullets of the posse had neither torn a tendon nor broken a bone.
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