How to Use military police in a Sentence

military police

noun
  • The award recognizes the top military police units in the U.S. Army.
    Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The military police that are visible in the city are members of the Guard.
    Jonathan Lemire, Time, 1 June 2020
  • The next day, military police at Camp Pendleton found the girl in a barracks.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • So, when military police busted some of the campers smoking weed, the entire group was kicked out of the park.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The 41st battalion of the military police is known as the battalion of death.
    Kiratiana Freelon, The Root, 16 Mar. 2018
  • On June 28, military police at Camp Pendleton found the girl in a barracks.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Then head of the military police, Jammeh lead a bloodless coup that took control of The Gambia in 1994.
    Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Pursued by the military police, there is an episode in which the team helps an army corporal.
    Itxu Díaz, National Review, 16 May 2021
  • The violence has stretched the police and led at times to the deployment of military police.
    Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
  • To this day, the surfers who defied that ban and got chased by military police remain legendary.
    Daniel Duane, Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Suddenly, a truck of military police officers pulled up in front of him, and the men began leaping out of the car.
    Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024
  • In Apaseo El Grande, where 30 state and 33 military police showed up at the turn of the year to cope with the surge in murders, patrols stopped briefly because of a mix-up over the force’s fuel budget.
    The Economist, 5 May 2018
  • The action, following the death of a 7-year-old girl who was killed in her home by military police over the weekend, ground the nation’s economy to a halt.
    Fortune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • At one point, Martin reached into a backpack and pulled out a hatchet, claimed to be military police and raced toward the guard, the reports said.
    oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Today, at least 70 percent of guard members are military police transferred from the army and navy.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The cause of the accident was not immediately clear, a spokesman for the military police said.
    Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 23 May 2021
  • Black men are killed daily by the military police who patrol the streets of many poor – and heavily Black – neighborhoods in Brazil.
    Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Russian military police quickly moved into the town, in a clear sign to Turkey not to attempt to retake it.
    Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Albert King, a Black soldier killed by a white military police officer in 1941, was blamed for his own death and buried in an unmarked grave.
    Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
  • No one else was injured, and military police fired no shots during the standoff, Plymale said.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2020
  • Some 82nd Airborne military police were brought into the area.
    CBS News, 7 June 2020
  • Married with no children, Beltrame had served in the French military police and received a number of awards for bravery.
    Sheena McKenzie and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Johnny says the day Frankie got back, two members of the armed service’s military police rounded him up and took him straight to a federal building.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The federal troops include two military police units and a rapid response force.
    Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 3 June 2020
  • Many were injured during the riots, which spread to other parts of the city until June 8, when service members were banned from the city and military police were called in to patrol it.
    The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2024
  • Further units from Fort Bragg and Fort Drum consisted of military police.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
  • Steven Garcia is a patrol supervisor with a military police unit, but the fight of his young life isn't on a battlefield.
    Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 18 May 2018
  • Gonzalez was a firefighter, and Cody was with the military police.
    Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Russian military police and Syrian border guards will enter areas to the east and west to ensure that the YPG vacates them as well.
    The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Louis served in the military police in the pacific, and served as Eleanor Roosevelt's honor-guard on her visit to hospitals in Australia.
    Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2017

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