How to Use cop to in a Sentence

cop to

phrasal verb

• The women closed the door and told the cop to stay outside, according to Platkin’s office.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
• Aisha closes the French doors to keep out the street noise, and Travis files a noise complaint that leads the cops to shut down Earl’s block party.
  — Terry Nguyen, Curbed, 6 Oct. 2024
• Juice cops to the Ghost being a myth but argues that all who fly to protect Ukraine are their own ghosts of Kyiv.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• When pressed for the source of an assertion, AI sometimes cops to making things up.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Aug. 2023
• Would Barber be arguing for that cop to do prison time?
  — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 May 2024
• The entirety of it, from the cops to the laws to the prosecutors to the judges to the jails, is designed for punishment, not justice.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
• Even those who don’t cop to this behavior still sometimes do it.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Baron tells Asaf), and the community is rallying to try to bring the cops to justice.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
• Yes, John Harbaugh will cop to having some Taylor Swift songs on his phone.
  — Noah Trister, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• This led the cops to obtain a warrant for the surveillance footage and other evidence.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
• The order directed those cops to revert to their command of record by last Friday.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
• The proposal still would have allowed cops to use the dogs for search and rescue and to detect narcotics and explosives.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Jokić copped to a fondness for Coke by the litre and for burek, a Serbian pastry usually filled with meat or cheese.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• On his last mission, Hole has to partner with a corrupt cop to investigate the murder of a woman.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
• Cahill, who presided over Chauvin's trial, sentenced the veteran cop to 22 1/2 years in prison.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 May 2023
• The Grammy winner copped to the mistake on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the episode aired.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Grammy winner copped to the mistake on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the episode aired.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
• If your birthday is today – Aug. 12 – your Florida Man is a drunk riding a lawn mower on the highway, begging cops to take him to jail.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2023
• Alec Baldwin copped to an Instagram gaffe after sharing a tribute to his children, only to leave one of them out.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 May 2023
• The state quickly turned the tables, claiming to the court that Fernandez purposely tried to portray himself as a cop to Lampley.
  — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 July 2024
• After Spears deleted her Instagram page, concerned fans called cops to her house, who then deduced that nothing was wrong.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2023
• To this day Kim Kardashian has only ever copped to getting Botox injections in her neck, per People.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 July 2023
• Reynolds has finally copped to being part of leaking Deadpool test footage way back in 2014, when the film was in the production bardo between editing and theaters.
  — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 26 July 2024
• Some parents called for more cops to patrol the neighborhood, noting that their nannies would no longer walk by certain subway stations.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2023
• Sandoval recalls overhearing Scheana copping to punching Raquel in the face, though everything Sandoval says at this point must be taken with a mine of salt.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• For now, Chow himself might cop to the platitudinous quality of his own descriptions.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• The film tells the story of an Irish mob boss who plants a spy within the Massachusetts State Police just as the police assign an undercover cop to infiltrate the gang.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• But the whole sequence is impressively ugly, and Danvers’ response — putting Leah in a jail cell and refusing entreaties by the other cops to stop being so tough on the kid — is even uglier.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• James Weeks, 55, of Sodus, just east of Rochester, copped to charges of assault and resisting police officers in federal court in Washington.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
• Critics say a vague definition of civil disturbances will allow cops to squash protests.
  — USA TODAY, 15 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025