How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

noun

• 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
• The policeman told him people were waiting at his house to tell him the news.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The policeman with whom Ivan comes in fatal contact is mourned on stage.
  — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
• As three policemen escorted Frey out, one of them grabbed Frey’s arm and spat at him.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• Turn up as the policeman and people sort of like being sort of lads, and boyish, and joshing with you.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• That’s how the son of a policeman from Wallhausen, Germany, earned the princely title.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2022
• Clint Eastwood’s first of five films playing the tough policeman.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 1 May 2022
• Last week, a policeman shot and killed a 17-year-old French boy of North African descent at a traffic light in a Parisian suburb.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• And everybody’s a big-city policeman’s all a crooked thug.
  — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• Within seconds, the man then wound up his arm and attacked Paul in front of the policemen, who swiftly moved in and tackled the assailant to the ground.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• Here, the dead were lined up outside the hospital, in body bags or blankets, dozens of them, because the morgue was full, a policeman said.
  — Kareem Fahim and Zeynep Karatas, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Clark was in pain as she was escorted to the locker room by a policeman with teammates by her side.
  — Staff Report, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
• In or near Buffalo, they were pulled over by a policeman.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
• The Castile painting is dated 2017, the year after the shooting occurred, but in sync with the time of the trial and the policeman’s acquittal.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Heartwarming new production of Dog Man, who with the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, likes to fight crime and chew on furniture.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2022
• Al-Khatib gets on the phone as the visitors argue with the officers amid the crackle of the policeman's walkie-talkie.
  — Isabel Debre, ajc, 17 Jan. 2023
• At its heart is the unsolved murder of a policeman who had posed as a taxi driver to catch a serial killer.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• Speeding down that road was Sergeant Khoury, the Arab policeman from northern Israel.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Now and again a policeman appeared, lazily trotting behind the body with a baton in one hand.
  — Hazlitt, 16 Nov. 2023
• While one of them decides to follow his path of petty crime, the other becomes a policeman.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Sep. 2022
• The policeman who shot him has been charged with voluntary homicide.
  — Charlotte Kilpatrick, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• In it, Styles plays a policeman named Tom who is forced to hide his sexuality in 1950s Britain.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2022
• God also gave me a silver badge like a policeman would proudly wear.
  — Edward McKinley, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2023
• His father was a policeman and his mother was a former cook.
  — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Islam tried not to think about what might happen if a policeman boarded to check his papers.
  — Asmaa Al-Omar, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• In 1994, Steve Wilkos, a Chicago policeman, had just finished a patrol shift when his buddy Mike told him about a side gig.
  — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• But the exit from the express lanes into downtown D.C. was closed off, guarded by a D.C. policeman.
  — Fox News, 21 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024