patrolman

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Recent Examples of patrolman After Shannon and Maggie’s deaths, Dennis Police Department Police Chief John Brady issued a statement on behalf of patrolman John Hubbard. Charna Flam, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025 Yet Feeley kept his badge; he was simply demoted to patrolman after serving a mere 45-day suspension. Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025 Caught in the middle of this controversy was Deputy Keith Farquhar, then a young patrolman. Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2025 Once in the governor's office, the future president quickly changed the complexion of the state workforce, placing Blacks in 40 percent of influential positions, including boosting their number on Georgia boards from three to 53 and appointing the first Black state patrolman. David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for patrolman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patrolman
Noun
  • The body camera footage shows the interaction between two policemen and the 17-year-old who later died.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2025
  • His mood wavers between disgust and disdain, and his people skills were not improved by nearly dying in an ambush that left one policeman dead and Morck’s partner, Detective Sergeant Hardy (Jamie Sives), in a wheelchair.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • And seriously, when the cops are agreeing there’s no riot — there is no riot.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
  • The crook ripped the chain from the boy’s neck and kept going, speeding off north on Marion Ave., cops said.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Immigration officers in March raided a metal business in unincorporated El Cajon that contracts with the federal government.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2025
  • Another woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting an officer, too.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Amedy Coulibaly, an accomplice who killed a policewoman and four hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris during the manhunt for the Kouachis, had been convicted five times for armed robbery.
    Diego Gambetta, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2016
  • Brady’s and Benson’s questioning styles vary greatly — Brady is fairly blunt, and Benson is all huggy-soft-voice-let-me-get-you-tea — and the two policewomen have it out during a break in questioning.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The longtime lawman has been accused of personal indiscretions such as receiving a nude photo of a co-worker, and professional missteps including his deputies’ aggressive actions in pursuing shoplifters at a Target and killing their driver.
    Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
  • The Wyatt Earp Small Batch is a tribute to the legendary lawman of the American West.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • And Natasha Lyonne, who plays amateur detective Charlie Cale, wears almost as many hats: actress, director, writer and producer.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • Jamie McBride is an LAPD detective with 35 years of experience on the force.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • The constable threw her convulsing body over the back of a horse and carted her to county lines.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 May 2025
  • The victim went back to the police six months later, and local detective constable, Mike Smith, led an investigation into what exactly occurred.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The sheriff's office said the skydiving plane was a DeHaviland DH-6 Twin Otter.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
  • Hundreds of law enforcement personnel have been searching for Decker — scouring forested areas, structures and a river in the area where Decker was last known to be located, the sheriff's office said over the weekend.
    Sarah Lynch Baldwin June 9, CBS News, 9 June 2025

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“Patrolman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrolman. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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