How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

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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
  • The policeman told him people were waiting at his house to tell him the news.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The policeman with whom Ivan comes in fatal contact is mourned on stage.
    — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here, the dead were lined up outside the hospital, in body bags or blankets, dozens of them, because the morgue was full, a policeman said.
    — Kareem Fahim and Zeynep Karatas, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Clark was in pain as she was escorted to the locker room by a policeman with teammates by her side.
    — Staff Report, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In or near Buffalo, they were pulled over by a policeman.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The Castile painting is dated 2017, the year after the shooting occurred, but in sync with the time of the trial and the policeman’s acquittal.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Heartwarming new production of Dog Man, who with the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, likes to fight crime and chew on furniture.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Al-Khatib gets on the phone as the visitors argue with the officers amid the crackle of the policeman's walkie-talkie.
    — Isabel Debre, ajc, 17 Jan. 2023
  • At its heart is the unsolved murder of a policeman who had posed as a taxi driver to catch a serial killer.
    — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • There were a couple of reasons that an Irish immigrant would want to be a policeman.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Speeding down that road was Sergeant Khoury, the Arab policeman from northern Israel.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Now and again a policeman appeared, lazily trotting behind the body with a baton in one hand.
    — Hazlitt, 16 Nov. 2023
  • While one of them decides to follow his path of petty crime, the other becomes a policeman.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The policeman who shot him has been charged with voluntary homicide.
    — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
  • In it, Styles plays a policeman named Tom who is forced to hide his sexuality in 1950s Britain.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2022
  • Mistaking the metal of the Leica camera at his back for a gun, the Ukrainian policeman stayed silent.
    — Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • Jennifer cited theories — since debunked — positing Floyd died of a drug overdose, not because of a policeman’s knee on his neck.
    — Reshma Kirpalani, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • Israeli forces, which have deepened their incursions into Rafah, in the south of the enclave near the border with Egypt, killed four Palestinian policemen and wounded eight others, in an air strike on their vehicle on Saturday, health officials said.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 July 2024

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