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
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Noun
  • The Snitch and played a sympathetic policeman in the alien drama Glitch.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • Bush came to office determined not to act as the global policeman.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN Money, 31 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
  • Another woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting an officer, too.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 June 2025
  • Hundreds of law enforcement officers at the local, state and federal level spent nearly two weeks searching for Hardin, using dogs, drones and aircraft, at times hampered by severe weather.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 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
  • Last week, prosecutors called their final witness, the Chicago police detective who was the lead investigator in the case.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • While genre fiction steadily advances onto bestseller lists, realism soldiers on, amid cyborgs and dragons and boozy detectives.
    Hamilton Cain, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Law enforcement agencies would have to create department files on any employee holding a Texas Commission on Law Enforcement license, which includes police, sheriff’s deputies, constables, corrections officers and others.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The sheriff's office said that Florida residents who are experiencing abuse or know someone who is experiencing abuse can contact the Florida Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-500-1119.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
  • The grandmother was being held on a $160,000 bond, while her daughter was held on a $105,000 bond, according to the sheriff’s office.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025

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“Patrolman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrolman. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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