How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

noun

• At least three protesters and one policeman have been killed in violence at rallies.
  — NBC News, 25 Feb. 2021
• Among those killed so far this year were a policeman who was shot, an Iraqi man who was beheaded, a local official who was gunned down and at least five women.
  — Sarah El Deeb and Lolita C. Baldor, Star Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
• Also helping out: the policeman himself, who has tracked Makhmalbaf down after 20 years.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• Meanwhile, the former policeman charged in George Floyd's death faced the prospect of an additional third-degree murder charge.
  — Steve Karnowski, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2021
• Yet she was abducted—and, investigators suspect, by a policeman.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2021
• The riot began after a shootout between rival Chinese gangs resulted in the wounding of a white policeman and the death of a civilian police employee.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• The news of Sara Everard’s terrible death – at the hands of a policeman - has met the media’s appetite for ghastly to become a global, front-page story.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• And in The Smokers, some men outside what might be a gay bar, clearly happy and assured in being together, don’t see a wary-looking policeman who is coming their way.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
• And probably the saddest of all, a California Navy veteran died after a policeman knelt on his chest during a mental health crisis.
  — Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2021
• Firemen are now firefighters, mailmen are letter carriers, policemen are police officers.
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• But the boots are on the feet of a policeman, or maybe even a politician.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
• And the policeman on their beat Comes by and knows them by their faces.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
• Sure enough, two policemen came to his home the next day.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Hugh went to the youngster’s house with a policeman and got the dollar back.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
• The policeman told him people were waiting at his house to tell him the news.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• There’s a short policeman behind me with a gun straight on my back and one on the driver of the car.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• The explosion took off both of the policeman’s legs and an arm.
  — WSJ, 7 June 2021
• And then this guy coming with a gun out does not see the short policeman behind me.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• As crowds gathered, a white policeman struck the Black driver across the face with a baton.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• People still flocked to the fair grounds, and policemen were busy keeping the idly curious out of the way of the workmen. ...
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
• The policeman with whom Ivan comes in fatal contact is mourned on stage.
  — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
• That was very difficult, to see the policeman put his knee on his neck, to see that happen to that man.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2021
• From a young age, women are taught to look for a policeman if something goes wrong.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• At last, Cofield had found the resolve to visit the city that took his life under the knee of policeman Derek Chauvin.
  — Maya Rao, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
• As three policemen escorted Frey out, one of them grabbed Frey’s arm and spat at him.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• Turn up as the policeman and people sort of like being sort of lads, and boyish, and joshing with you.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• That’s how the son of a policeman from Wallhausen, Germany, earned the princely title.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2022
• Clint Eastwood’s first of five films playing the tough policeman.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 1 May 2022
• In 1936, a Polish policeman stopped her on the street and said something hostile.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Two other former policemen indicted in the case have pleaded guilty.
  — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024