police station

noun

: the headquarters of the police for a locality

Examples of police station in a Sentence

They brought him down to the police station for questioning.

Recent Examples on the Web

Being able to process the multi-sensor data at the police station, energy station or grid interchange will likely invoke Jevons paradox. — Lee-Lean Shu, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where demonstrators had gathered near a police station, chanting antimilitant slogans and demanding peace, district police chief Omar Khan said. — CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

Perez came to the police station in the days after news of Leslie’s death broke to tell police that Charlie was at the DBI the day his wife died. — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026

The driver brings the baby to friends partying in a night club; his quandary yields existential debate in a police station, a portrait of a courthouse’s bureaucratic frenzy, and a heartrending documentary vision of an orphanage. — Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 31 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for police station

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration