How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

noun

• The United States cannot be the policeman of the world.
  — NBC News, 31 July 2019
• But the boots are on the feet of a policeman, or maybe even a politician.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
• And the policeman on their beat Comes by and knows them by their faces.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
• One policeman was slashed in the neck with a knife last month.
  — NBC News, 2 Nov. 2019
• Sure enough, two policemen came to his home the next day.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Hugh went to the youngster’s house with a policeman and got the dollar back.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
• The policeman told him people were waiting at his house to tell him the news.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• There’s a short policeman behind me with a gun straight on my back and one on the driver of the car.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• The ad in the TV Guide and the newspaper was of a policeman with a bag of doughnuts with a bite out of one of them.
  — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2021
• The explosion took off both of the policeman’s legs and an arm.
  — WSJ, 7 June 2021
• After a pause the policeman bent over and laid into the man again.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The killing of a black man by a policeman’s knee to the neck awoke something in Ms. White, by her own account.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
• At the river’s edge, the boyfriend bribed a policeman, and the two climbed into a boat that dropped them on the other side.
  — Smita Sharma, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020
• The postman, the fireman, the policeman and clerk at the convenience store, the ladies at the dry cleaner.
  — Kyle Ringo, Houston Chronicle, 27 May 2018
• But that night a policeman came to the house and told her James had been arrested.
  — Essence, 13 Feb. 2025
• And one of my greatest compliments is that a lot of policemen are fans of the show.
  — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• And then this guy coming with a gun out does not see the short policeman behind me.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• As crowds gathered, a white policeman struck the Black driver across the face with a baton.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• People still flocked to the fair grounds, and policemen were busy keeping the idly curious out of the way of the workmen. ...
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2023
• In 2016 alone, two Kansas City, Kan., policemen were killed in the line of duty.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 20 June 2018
• That’s better than if a policeman sees a suspect and shoots and kills him.
  — IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2020
• The suspect collided with the policeman causing the chainsaw to fall to the floor.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
• The suspect collided with the policeman causing the chainsaw to fall to the floor.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
• The policeman with whom Ivan comes in fatal contact is mourned on stage.
  — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
• Americans are said to be tired of being the world’s policeman, and who can blame them.
  — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
• One time, an actor was hired to dress up as a policeman and arrest one of the teens—leaving them in tears.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
• One time, an actor was hired to dress up as a policeman and arrest one of the teens—leaving them in tears.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
• That was very difficult, to see the policeman put his knee on his neck, to see that happen to that man.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2021
• Bush came to office determined not to act as the global policeman.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
• His son Flávio had been found to be paying a salary to the wife and the mother of a fugitive policeman who was wanted for running a murder-for-hire operation.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025