How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

noun
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  • 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
  • After a pause the policeman bent over and laid into the man again.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • At the river’s edge, the boyfriend bribed a policeman, and the two climbed into a boat that dropped them on the other side.
    — Smita Sharma, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • 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 | Bflanagan@al.com, 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
  • Becky had also been warned about strangers from a policeman who came to her school the year before the incident.
    — Chris Young Ritzen, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • By that time, a patrol car had arrived with two policemen.
    — Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024

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