In a sentence
Six example sentences with docket, each labelled with its topic.
Three trials were pushed to autumn because the judge's docket had no open week left before the summer recess.
Law
Voters rarely notice it, but the state supreme court's docket for the coming term shapes more policy than most bills do.
Politics
The documentary follows one clerk who prints the docket each morning and watches which cases actually get called.
Movies
The county's 1790s docket survives in the archive, listing unpaid debts, boundary disputes, and one stolen cow.
History
The firm's lawyers check the court docket every morning, since the bankruptcy hearing could be called on any open day.
Business
The novel opens with a clerk reading the day's docket aloud, and each name on the list becomes a chapter.
Literature
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