LAWSUIT in a Sentence

Learn LAWSUIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

22 example sentences for LAWSUIT, such as:

1. A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
2. My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no progress.
3. Why the school denied her tenure is the subject of a lawsuit.
4. They told him they had none, and that they were strangers to lawsuits.
5. He put an end to differences, he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAWSUIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lawsuit
 n.  litigation; suit at law or in equity; action or proceeding in a civil court
Classic Sentence:
1  He had become much disheartened after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  I understood, from something which the Colonel told us, that a lawsuit had been going on between you, Mr. Acton, and the Cunninghams.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
3  My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no progress.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
4  The second was, that he did not wish to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be brought in to testify against Thenardier.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
5  They told him they had none, and that they were strangers to lawsuits.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
6  He put an end to differences, he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
7  You are the son of my aunt, consequently my cousin; you come from Noyon, in Picardy; you have several lawsuits and no attorney.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
8  Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
9  He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
10  And Duane had been robbed of it by a great company, and got tangled up in lawsuits and lost all his money.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  The only possible source for replacement is nuclear, and your allies on the left will toss lawsuit after lawsuit to prevent that from happening.
2  Berg's frivolous lawsuit was tossed out for lack of standing shortly before the election by a federal district court.
3  Why the school denied her tenure is the subject of a lawsuit.
4  There was trouble 'bout something, and then a lawsuit to settle it; and the suit went agin one of the men, and so he up and shot the man that won the suit -- which he would naturally do, of course.
5  His lawyer said he reckoned he would win his lawsuit and get the money if they ever got started on the trial; but then there was ways to put it off a long time, and Judge Thatcher knowed how to do it.
6  Health concerns among the big food firms are driven by legal worries as well consumer pressure - last year the hamburger chain McDonalds fought off a lawsuit by children who blamed their weight problems on its products.
7  Five people in New York have filed a lawsuit against the city government to stop random bag searches in the city's subway.
8  The Justice Department flew in a lead prosecutor from Colorado and planned for a news conference in Washington to announce a lawsuit against Citigroup over mortgage securities that had imploded during the financial crisis.
9  A major intellectual property lawsuit involving IT giants Oracle and Google is in the process of defining the legal definitions of "creative" and "utilitarian" in software development.
10  A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
11  She alone must have been the moving spirit behind the lawsuit that lost me my position.
12  We all know the fact that grounds for such lawsuits are often preposterous, so they just waste money of taxpayers.