How to Use patrolman in a Sentence

patrolman

noun

• So Ed and one of his patrolmen picked John up and put him in the car, and helped the daughter in.
  — E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• Two shots hit the assailant and saved the patrolman’s life.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 25 May 2017
• When a patrolman approached, Clark jumped out of the car and made a run for it.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
• Leavelle and a patrolman arrested the man and took the suspect to the city jail.
  — Joe Simnacher and Marc Ramirez, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• Piter joined the force in 2016, and worked as a patrolman in the Second District.
  — cleveland, 7 Feb. 2022
• The pastor came to the scene and spoke with the patrolman and the officers who arrived at the scene.
  — Marissa Evans, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• She's got a soft spot and wandering eye for the patrolman, so she's agreed to bring him a gift.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• Most portrayed the 6-foot-1-inch patrolman with the lineman build as swift with his blows.
  — Dallas Morning News, 6 July 2023
• Highway patrolmen are told not to fill their petrol tanks to save funds.
  — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2018
• Salam is stopped by border patrolman Assi, whose wife is a fan of the show.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• Will Smith is a cop who teams up with the first Orc patrolman (Joel Edgerton) on the force to track down a deadly new weapon.
  — Sean Axmaker, OregonLive.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• And then there’s this very grim moment when one first responder tells the, the patrolman or the the uh, um, trooper.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2023
• Up the road, the highway patrolman eased out of the turnout and slowly drifted towards Daiek.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 8 Feb. 2020
• The patrolman had come to the area on an unrelated call.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2018
• The second patrolman pulled out his own gun, chased the attacker and shot him.
  — Michael Schwartz, CNN, 6 Aug. 2023
• Over the next few days, the patrolman interviewed the six boys who were at the scene of the attack, according to police records.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• Nine patrolmen who fired on the students were tried in 1969; they were acquitted of all charges.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• Highway patrolmen are told not to fill their petrol tanks to save money.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• His father, Michael, was the chief of police; his brother, Joseph, a patrolman.
  — George Anastasia, Philly.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• Four men on hickories—two skiers, an instructor and a ski patrolman-climbed a ridge to the head of Blank Creek Run.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
• Brenchley was the 11th patrolman who has been hit by a car this year, KSTU reported.
  — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 29 Mar. 2018
• Helle started his police career as a patrolman on the West Side in 1989.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 June 2020
• That day of the murder, a patrolman came upon the suspect, a drifter named Donald Ray Rister, and shot him, wounding the man in the neck.
  — oregonlive, 3 May 2021
• Gray worked as a patrolman at least since 2012, the first year salary data was available on Gateway.
  — Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Of course no border patrolmen would go on the record about anything anymore, not even the weather.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
• Officer Derek Maly, a patrolman who had been with the department for a year at the time of his arrest, was fired Dec. 14.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The four were in a truck when a patrolman pulled them over for an unreadable temporary tag.
  — Robert Garrison, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• The coach’s brother, living just two blocks away, heard those six gunshots fired by a white patrolman.
  — SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• In fact, the movie featured a fictional account of a patrolman at Fort Apache.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The patrolmen were brought to Grapevine’s Lucas Funeral Home.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024