How to Use officer in a Sentence

officer

noun

• The officer was struck in the leg and missed several months of work.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
• One of the two MCC officers shot the suspect and he was declared dead at the scene, Trent said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
• The dog runs toward officers, then turns to Rose and attacks him, pulling him to the ground, the video shows.
  — Polo Sandoval, CNN, 26 July 2023
• The woman was identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe and the two officers were not named in the suit.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The officer opened fire on Laing as the man kicked open the door to his neighbor’s home, according to both the report and the bodycam video.
  — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
• But surely any officer in the King’s army would have been force-fed Virgil at school?
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• But Jason was gone and officers were unable to find him.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The encounter was caught on cameras worn by both officers.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2023
• One of the officers involved in that fatal shooting, Sgt.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
• As alleged, the defendant opened fire and took the officer’s life and tried to shoot another member of the NYPD.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024
• Lane said the quick response from his officers led to the suspect, who still had the gun when he was taken into custody.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2023
• One job Meyer is hoping to fill soon is chief ethics officer.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2023
• Phoenix needs about 500 more officers to be fully staffed.
  — Robert Klemko, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• Morale in the department was low, and officers were leaving faster than they could be replaced.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• The Sox continue to plod through what well could be the final weeks of Chaim Bloom’s tenure as chief baseball officer.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Police seized the knife from him in between his barrage of attacks on officers.
  — Michael Kunzelman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
• The officer’s rounds can be seen shattering the back windows of the vehicle in dash camera video.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• The Portland Police Bureau said in a news release that the boy was pronounced dead at the scene by the time officers responded to the house on the city's northeast side.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• The last state sentence of the officers marks the end of original prosecutions for those involved in Floyd's death.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
• The animal ran away from its trailer and was found by officers that morning.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2024
• The officer was treated at Decatur Morgan Hospital for the bite, which broke the skin, the sheriff’s office said.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2023
• The officer saw the driver throw a cup out the window along with another unidentified object in the 3500 block of Cherokee Road.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• The officers listed on the site have conservative ties.
  — Carmen Nesbitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2023
• The allegations against Cole and Warner-Sims are some of the most egregious the department’s officers have faced.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• One officer fired his gun, then another officer fired, and a third shocked the dog with a Taser, according to the video and the women’s accounts.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• The officers would then plot the attacks on maps that also showed Marine positions.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• The remaining four officers have all pleaded not guilty to both federal and state charges.
  — Jessica Jaglois, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• It can also be used when officers are doing more proactive police work in an area.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• After a brief argument, in which the officers made light of his name, the rapper was put in a choke hold, slammed against the pavement, and then charged with resisting arrest.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Customers had detained a suspect, a man in his 40s, and officers took him into custody.
  — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024