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Recent Examples of policeman The officer tells Wallen that the police were attempting to understand what happened after a chair fell from the bar’s rooftop and landed by the policeman’s patrol car. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025 Today’s policed are tomorrow’s policemen. Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025 The actors tells the stories of the deceased, including cattleman and 6666 ranch owner Samuel Burk Burnett, and the city’s first Black policeman, Hagar Tucker. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025 Two policemen were injured and the driver was killed, police confirmed, after the vehicle landed in a ditch. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for policeman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for policeman
Noun
  • If a deal makes, Jordan will play Ricardo Tubbs, one half of the famous cop duo known as Crockett & Tubbs.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Read, who was acquitted earlier this year of the Boston cop’s murder, is being sued for her boyfriend’s death.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The measure would provide $45 billion to expand ICE’s detention capacity to nearly 100,000 beds, $14 billion for transportation and removal operations and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new deportation officers.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, my former agency the NGA is charged with both making maps (the job of explorers) and uncovering what’s really going on in those places (the job of intelligence officers).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kamal says the constables accused him of forging them and detained him.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Randles plays Elle Hardy, a senior constable assigned to reinvestigating the case.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Policeman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/policeman. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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