policeman
noun
po·lice·man
pə-ˈlēs-mən 
1
: a member of a police force
2
: one held to resemble a policeman
making the United States the policeman for the whole wide world—
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Examples of policeman in a Sentence
reported the crime to the nearest policeman
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Twelve policemen were beaten to death in the north-western district of Sirajganj, police official Bijoy Bosak said.
—Reuters, CNN, 4 Aug. 2024
Hugh went to the youngster’s house with a policeman and got the dollar back.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
Her savior arrives in the most unlikely of places with Billy Bob Thornton’s racist policeman, one of the men who assisted in electrocuting her husband.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 31 July 2024
Taiwo remembers everyone fawning over the food, including some policemen on set who were floored to find that Africans don’t eat rubbish.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2024
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Reuters, CNN, 4 Aug. 2024
Hugh went to the youngster’s house with a policeman and got the dollar back.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
Her savior arrives in the most unlikely of places with Billy Bob Thornton’s racist policeman, one of the men who assisted in electrocuting her husband.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 31 July 2024
Taiwo remembers everyone fawning over the food, including some policemen on set who were floored to find that Africans don’t eat rubbish.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2024
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policeman
noun
po·lice·man
pə-ˈlē-smən
Medical Definition
policeman
noun
po·lice·man
pə-ˈlēs-mən
plural policemen
-mən
: an instrument (as a flat piece of rubber on a glass rod) for removing solids from a vessel (as a beaker)
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