How to Use officer in a Sentence

officer

1 of 2 noun

• One officer grabbed a long gun from his trunk.
  — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 14 May 2026
• The officer was not struck by the rocks.
  — Jason Green, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
• At that point, both officers had their weapons out.
  — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
• Six officers fired their weapons, and a man was killed.
  — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
• At the scene, officers found a man with gunshot wounds.
  — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• While on their way, the officers were told that someone might have been shot.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
• The officers and agents are still throughout the city.
  — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• There, officers found both victims, who had been shot, in front of a home.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
• The suspects were told to stay on the bus, but one jumped off and ran from the officers.
  — Jeff Capellini, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
• All said the officer fired in self-defense.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
• The officer was not struck or injured.
  — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
• Hundreds of officers were at this raid.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Oct. 2025
• The officer was struck in the leg and missed several months of work.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
• There, officers found a man in a parking lot next to a business.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
• Mack and Allen were shot along with two other officers.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
• In the meantime, officers noticed the front door to the house had been forced open.
  — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
• The business was in flux before officers shut it down.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
• Two officers fired their service weapons, and the suspect went down.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
• The man took off running and an officer followed.
  — Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 24 Oct. 2025
• More details about the officer here.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 30 Apr. 2026
• At the scene, officers found a man in his early 60s on the first floor of the home.
  — Michael Guise, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
• In the video, officers called Martin by name.
  — Hannah Fingerhut, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
• Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer.
  — Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
• That is when a witness got on the radio and called for officers to assist.
  — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• Both were stopped by officers a few blocks away and were taken in for questioning.
  — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
• One job Meyer is hoping to fill soon is chief ethics officer.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2023
• The man died, and police initially said he was shot by an officer.
  — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 26 June 2026
• Jones said two officers returned fire, striking the man.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 14 May 2026
• The officers cleared him to go after looking him up in their system.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 11 June 2026
• The woman told officers that she was pushed out of the vehicle.
  — Tim Fang, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026

officer

2 of 2 verb

• Morales lived at the home with her mother, but police have not explicitly said whether that is who officers found.
  — Zach Murdock, courant.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• This time officers not only trashed her research, but drove her out of meetings and sent a man to wreck her testing clinic with a birdcage pole.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Peters also shared with the outlet that officers reportedly told her that Mills’ body was found in the back of a semi-truck.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 2 July 2019
• The new hire will oversee a team of psychologists in every borough who officers can turn to in a time of need, Monahan said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2020
• Police said the homeowner took a picture of the woman, who officers recognized as Nazario-Colon.
  — Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2018
• Police say security footage shows a man who officers identified as Pendleton trying to get into the building.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
• The incident highlights the challenges that officers face when responding to drag racing in the city with an understaffed police department.
  — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
• Three people who officers had taken into custody in the house before the shooting started were also safely evacuated, police said.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• Of the 12 Warren County officers named, four are still employed there, according to the sheriff's office.
  — Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• In a court filing, a police lieutenant said security footage shows a man who officers identified as Pendleton trying to get into the building.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Arizona Department of Public Safety officers only let a few protesters up at a time due to fire-code restrictions.
  — Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 19 June 2018
• The 41-year-old Rocky River man, who officers learned had arrests warrants from two other law enforcement agencies, was found in the building and removed.
  — cleveland, 4 Mar. 2020
• McInnis appeared to pull his gun up to his stomach, prompting the officers to tackle him and McCoy, who officers feared had a gun in his waistband, the report said.
  — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• San Francisco police shot and killed a man who officers say was stabbing another man on the city’s busy downtown Market Street on Wednesday.
  — Paul Elias, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• The goal is to connect people in mental health crisis who officers encounter on the street to appropriate treatment and community resources to reduce their contacts with police and the criminal justice system.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Kirby was fatally shot by East Lansing Police Department officers a little over a week before his graduation.
  — Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 16 May 2026
• Clark County officers responded to a call from the Charlestown Police Department around noon about a missing person who officers believed was suicidal and had a handgun.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2019
• South Brunswick Police Department officers Yash Shroff and Thomas Sites, who were first on the scene, managed to pull Islam from the burning wreckage.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
• The officers gunned down in the shooting have been identified as Northern Regional Police Department officers Detective Sergeant Cody Becker, Detective Mark Baker and Detective Isaiah Emenheiser.
  — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025