How to Use station house in a Sentence

station house

noun
Definition of station housenext
  • She was told she would be driven to the 60th Precinct station house, about a mile and a half from the park.
    — Al Baker, Alan Feuer and Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • On the way to the station house a mob attached them and fired shots, killing Dillon.
    — Indianapolis Star, 6 July 2014
  • The first eastbound station house is due to open before the end of June 2019.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Still, Works said the station house should not have been destroyed.
    — Star Tribune, 26 July 2020
  • While the team is responding to a call, a fire breaks out at their station house.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The station houses were in very bad shape, the food was bad, everything was bad.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • Bring your family and friends out to the Lester Rail Trail for train rides around a miniature railroad and station house.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 22 June 2022
  • Natale-Hjorth had been brought in handcuffs to the station house from his hotel, Gargaro said.
    — Frances D’emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
  • The Central District station house should have been condemned years ago!
    — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2019
  • The teenager was taken to the 26th Precinct station house in Morningside Heights, near where the attack occurred, the police said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The engines in question are each part of a multi-company station house.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Both men were led by detectives from the 48th Precinct station house late Tuesday night after being booked and questioned.
    — New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • The department tweeted a photo of the flag and its maker on Wednesday, saying it would be displayed in a local station house.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The stations housed much needed post offices, health clinics, and social services.
    — Wired, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Late one evening in January 2015, the police arrested Rosie Martinez on a charge of selling heroin and held her overnight at their station house in Queens.
    — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Mure claimed four glassine bags of heroin were found in the woman’s wallet when police pulled her and O’Connell over and that marijuana was later found in her shoe at the station house.
    — Anna Sanders, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The people arrested Saturday were booked at a station house.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Cruz, having retained a lawyer, had come to the station house voluntarily.
    — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Then Bouza offers a mighty disquisition on poverty and ghettoization that should be inscribed on the walls of every station house in the country.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2020
  • In addition, the large badge affixed to the front of the Chesterton Police Department’s station house has been draped with black cloth in memory of Komisarcik.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, the wagon continued to the Western District station house.
    — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • As the basement overflowed, police moved some of the materials to the District 5 station house on the city's north side and some to a couple of empty rooms in the downtown branch of the Milwaukee Public Library.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
  • Today, the Downtown station houses a major hotel, restaurants and a charter school.
    — Natalia E. Contreras, Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2019
  • Surveillance cameras were rolling when the burglar pulled out a pistol and pointed it towards a door leading from the vehicle bay into the station house, said Lt.
    — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Her final work was at another station house in southwest London.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
  • The shooting at the station house occurred just hours after a gunman opened fire on two officers in a police van blocks away on Saturday night, injuring one.
    — Katie Honan, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Firefighters made up the bulk of the assembly—many wore T-shirts identifying themselves by station house, ladder, and engine.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2021
  • All service members are being advised to be vigilant, and station house security must be posted on all tours, the memo says.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
  • These two officers worked at station houses nearly two miles apart, and yet here they were drawn together in a few tense, confusing seconds in a fast-food parking lot.
    — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The First Police Precinct station house, where Weinstein was arrested, was not unfamiliar to him.
    — Author: Benjamin Mueller, Alan Feuer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2018

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