How to Use constabulary in a Sentence

constabulary

noun

• Their presumptions, at some point, are crushed, either by the gods or the local constabulary.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 31 May 2018
• The third battalion, staffed with short-term conscripts, is a brigade’s constabulary and training base.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Now, were black men being shot and killed by the constabulary in the United States and in some instances with impunity?
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• League constabulary busts Raiders twice for allowing unauthorized civilians in the locker room.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
• The men learn this news from a local politico at the speakeasy and race home to find that Claudia, tipsy from the alcohol in the blood of her latest victim, has let the local constabulary in to search.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• The club expressed concern to the Merseyside Police, the local constabulary, about the risk of disobedience.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Her work with the local constabulary makes up the majority of her income and serves as a perfect distraction from her sporting career, even if things get occasionally heated.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 6 June 2020
• The police confirmed that an officer from the Cheshire constabulary in northwest England had been killed while attending the concert with her husband and two children.
  — Dan Bilefsky and Iliana Magra, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Baumbach puts the rotten ‘secrets’ of Hollywood and the media world on display, yet almost no one in the critical constabulary will dare criticize it for fear of losing prestige.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
• The local constabulary said the British Transport Police was leading the investigation.
  — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
• Plus, if that interested influencer is any indication, the local constabulary will likely direct their attention to the Aston instead.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2022
• The decision was made on the advice of West Midlands Police, the constabulary with responsibility for overseeing security at the match.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• His career reflects the current fashion in ideological groupthink — also a defect of our partisan critical constabulary that has made Martin Eden a film-festival favorite.
  — Armond White, National Review, 16 Oct. 2020
• The second one was during the massive protests that happened following the release of the video of the killing of George Floyd, when the administration assembled a constabulary that stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with masks on.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Because the head of the league’s constabulary, Joe Torre, who certainly never sought retaliation in all his years as a manger, ordered no fine or suspension of Rizzo despite confirming Anthony indeed had broken the rule.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 June 2017
• Current Constable Wayne Thompson enacted several programs within his department that are relatively uncommon for a constabulary.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2020
• Dupin—who is thought to have been modelled on a real-life Frenchman, Eugène-François Vidocq—is a private citizen with a prodigious intellect, remarkable skills of observation, and time on his hands, cracking cases that stump the local constabulary.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• The Metropolitans were granted authority throughout the New Orleans area, despite that some jurisdictions, including Jefferson, had their own constabularies.
  — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 11 July 2017