police car

noun

: a car used by police officers

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Walker claimed that the police car was traveling at high speed, most likely on a call, and recalled hearing sirens right before the crash. Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026 Just months after the unit started, one officer in an unmarked police car spotted a man on a dirtbike and swerved across a yellow line into oncoming traffic, hitting the motorcyclist head-on and sending him flying. Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 May 2026 One person was critically injured after a crash with a Fort Worth police car early Sunday, police said. Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2026 But three people jumped on the hood of a police car, breaking its windshield, before piling into a black Nissan with no license plates and zooming north on 69th St. Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for police car

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“Police car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/police%20car. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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