How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

noun

• 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 ad in the TV Guide and the newspaper was of a policeman with a bag of doughnuts with a bite out of one of them.
  — cleveland, 31 Jan. 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
• That’s better than if a policeman sees a suspect and shoots and kills him.
  — IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Francis addressed the killing of Floyd, a Black man whose death at the knee of a white policeman set off protests this year across the United States.
  — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• 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
• He was born in Pittsburgh, joined the Marines and served as a military policeman.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Last week, a policeman shot and killed a 17-year-old French boy of North African descent at a traffic light in a Parisian suburb.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• And everybody’s a big-city policeman’s all a crooked thug.
  — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Thurman writes of a funeral for a black man who was killed by a policeman.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 27 June 2021
• Some Democrats say the tech giants are a large enough problem to deserve their own policeman.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2020
• Within seconds, the man then wound up his arm and attacked Paul in front of the policemen, who swiftly moved in and tackled the assailant to the ground.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• Outside Parliament, a small cluster of policemen were dawdling on the sidewalk.
  — Nadia Beard, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• Keats and New York defenseman Ching Johnson squared off in a bitter brawl that required players from both teams, the referee and two uniformed policemen to break up.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024