How to Use police officer in a Sentence

police officer

noun

• As the driver draws the gun on the biker, a police officer can be seen rushing to the scene from across the street.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Elliott was the third San Diego police officer to be shot in the last 12 months.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
• One of the eight injured was a police officer who tried to stop the driver, Sewell said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The next morning, police officers saw the car and tried to pull the driver over, police said.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• In the summer of 1964, a young Black man named James Powell was shot dead by a police officer, and Harlem burned.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 16 July 2023
• The two men were at the bottom of the stairs when two San Francisco police officers arrived and one knocked on the front door.
  — Michael Finnegan, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• In Episode 1, the song starts within the first 10 minutes, as a child is writing down names for a police officer.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Schurr had been a Grand Rapids police officer since 2015.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2023
• When the door opened, the gunman open fired on a squad of police officers, who were trapped on a cramped hotel floor with no space to take cover.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2024
• The third police officer took the green encyclopedia from his hands and left the room with it.
  — Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
• According to one police officer who spoke to the Free Press, he was escorted out of the venue.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2024
• Payne said a police officer came by and scared the bears off with a siren but the animals returned later in search of more food.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
• That baby won't get to be a future PG police officer or live his best life.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2024
• About 100 police officers were patrolling the area and tackled the shooter soon after the shots were fired, Smith said.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
• Smelling the odor of death at the front door of the house in the 800 block of Buffalo Court, police officers broke a glass back door, found the bodies and heard movement on the second floor.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2024
• Then, a couple of police officers show up and harass them.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
• The suspect dropped the handgun during the scuffle with the police officer, and a Target store employee kicked the gun away.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
• The school always has a former police officer on site when school is in session.
  — Savannah Tryens-Fernandes | [e-mail], al, 31 Mar. 2023
• Think about all these things that can be used to cross-examine and impeach a police officer.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The tranche of texts were exposed last week by a city police officer who was fired last year, Corey Shedoudy.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• The White police officers hit the Army man over the head, shot at him three times, and, eventually, arrested him.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• His death marked the first killing of an on-duty Oakland police officer in nearly 15 years.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Woodyard is one of three Aurora police officers and two paramedics charged in the death of McClain in 2019.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
• An off-duty Phoenix police officer who was in the area near the store was alerted of the shoplifting attempt, police said.
  — Andrea Morabito, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2023
• Two days later, police officers found Mr. Grant on a park bench, a telltale pink on his right hand, pants and sneakers.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• These threats have led JCPS police officers to charge seven students with felonies, less than two months into the school year.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2024
• The school of 1,700 students also relies on a squad of off-duty police officers.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• The same year, the city paid almost $10 million to the families of two men who died in a freeway crash caused by an off-duty police officer.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
• Watch: Quick-thinking police officer saves sleeping man from falling off a bridge.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
• Seeking to track repeat offenders in Paris, the French police officer Alfonse Bertillon supplemented mug shots with systematic measurement of features such as the breadth of the head and the length of the left foot.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024