How to Use police state in a Sentence

police state

noun
Definition of police statenext
  • These lessons in compliance, while expected, are what comes of challenging the police state.
    — Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 22 May 2024
  • Civil liberties activists fear that the Games will transform their city into something resembling a police state.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Or even an area that doesn’t face that much of a police state.
    — cleveland, 6 June 2021
  • The life of an artist in a police state is very tricky — always has been.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Nov. 2023
  • For too long the world has overlooked the atrocities of the Cuban police state.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 16 July 2017
  • But Venezuela is now a police state at war with its people.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
  • But no hand belongs here, in an iron-fist, cake-pop police state.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Is the climate crisis and a police state the price society must pay to support the arts?
    — Rhonda Lieberman, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019
  • When the movie opens, the pillars and crossbeams of the USSR’s police state are still in place, but the foundation is showing cracks.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • Noah has joked in his standup about daily life under a racist police state, even about the day his mother was shot in the head.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Most of the time, the world will side with the system — the white supremacist police state — and the low wage worker will be the one who loses out.
    — refinery29.com, 19 June 2020
  • In the video, police state that Ryan is holding something in his hands, and then identify it as a weapon.
    — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2022
  • After police put down spike strips, the truck crashed in Wood Village at about 1 a.m., police state.
    — oregonlive, 22 May 2021
  • Cornyn declaring that this idea that the judge is guilty until proven innocent is like a police state.
    — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • The problem was not so much him but the police state of Eygpt where fear is still used to suppress the population.
    — Marie Claire, 25 Feb. 2010
  • After the shooting, Sicairos and his friend fled the scene, police state in arrest documents.
    — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
  • That state now places its trust in the force of arms, and so must resort to the vocabulary of a police state, as in South Africa or Algeria.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But these protesters risk the wrath of a police state in sticking up for its foreign victims.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Both attacked the Aurora man, stabbed him and took his phone, police stated.
    — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Atlanta police stated that the Chicago native was not in custody as of press time.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 May 2019
  • Would that be the conviction that one-party police states are bad and democracies good?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 July 2023
  • The human rights violations occurring in the province are the product of the police state in the region.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
  • That is by design, and it is reinforced by the country’s ruthless police state.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
  • The news release from Lubbock police stated that six family members were inside the car at the time of the shooting.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The right is using it as a smokescreen for a power grab, one that seeks to regress California to a Reagan-era police state.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Networks of face-recognition cameras are part of the police state China has built in Xinjiang, in the country’s far west.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Hong Kong is becoming more and more like a police state, like a tyranny like Beijing,’’ Leung said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Criticizing the leader of a police state in a public poll during a war would be quite stupid, and the Russian people aren’t stupid.
    — WSJ, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The novel is set in 2050, a dystopian setting of the United States, which is now in a police state from the economic fallout of a virus that kills animals.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2022
  • His visa for Belarus expired 12 days ago, leaving him at the mercy of a repressive police state.
    — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021

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