How to Use police procedural in a Sentence

police procedural

noun
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  • Take a genre such as the police procedural, the space opera, or the vampire romance.
    — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • This recount of the search for Short's killer isn't a police procedural.
    — Piu Eatwell, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The police procedural went on to have a 12-season run at the network.
    — Miles Beller, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The remainder of High and Low is one of the strongest police procedurals of all time.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
  • There’s even a story by Ed McBain, a master of the police procedural.
    — John J. Miller, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • On Saturday, May 11, Priem — a grip who worked on the police procedural — died at age 66.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • The news comes as the police procedural, which is based on the Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent novels, has aired five episodes of its second season.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The show is a gritty police procedural; its true genre, however, is the fairy tale.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The novel’s blend of police procedural and horror works well.
    — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Neubauer's background could have prepared her to write police procedurals or the kind of two-fisted thrillers that Whitefish Bay's Nick Petrie writes.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2020
  • But now, the police procedural is revealing some happy news for a change: The show has been renewed for Season 10!
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2019
  • An expat who has lived in Venice for many years, the lambent Ms. Leon writes police procedurals with pith and grace and case-closing narrative drive.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 29 May 2024
  • Of course, recent episodes have proved that the popular police procedural doesn’t shy away from letting other famous celebrities from the ‘80s and ‘90s in on the fun.
    — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 25 Feb. 2022
  • There are a few different flavors — the straight-up police procedural, the more cable-y court thriller, the legal drama.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Critics and showrunners alike say that the police procedural, the most American genre, is in crisis.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Murder will out as the police procedural returns for a third season.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • In fact, the very genre of police procedural has its origin in Weimar Cinema—as do many of the investigative techniques the genre relies on.
    — Adrian Daub, New Republic, 14 Feb. 2018
  • On April 26, CBS announced that the police procedural would end after three seasons.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
  • This time, Soffer is stepping behind the camera to direct episode 16 of the police procedural, EW can confirm.
    — Justine Browning, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Like yarn stretched across a bulletin board in a scene from a police procedural, this early monkey brain network was difficult to parse link by link.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
  • This series is going to be more action-packed than the Kubu books, which are really police procedurals.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • One of the best police procedurals of the 2010s is set and shot in Montreal, and is an English-language adaptation of a French-Canadian series.
    — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The series is framed as a police procedural, but also a contest for an object, and an answer, between better and worse factions, which is not quite to say good and bad.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
  • The police procedural and legal drama is returning to NBC on Feb. 24 with both new and former cast members.
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Deadwind Foreign language police procedurals are a dime a dozen on Netflix—and thank goodness for that.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2018
  • If one of them steals the show, it’s Bellisle; her characters include the cliched victim of a TV police procedural and a woman convinced that her friend’s ex is a murderer.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • In her hand is a plastic pouch stuffed with belongings and closed with a red seal reminiscent of the evidence bags in police procedurals.
    — Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • Seeking to bridge two familiar forms — the police procedural and the gang-redemption memoir — Green tracks cops and killers by turns as events draw them together.
    — Jill Leovy, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • No one’s quite sure), settle into his recliner and fall asleep to the soothing sounds of a military-police procedural.
    — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • In part three, Night Country starts to resemble a classic police procedural, at least structurally.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024

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