How to Use police in a Sentence

police

1 of 2 noun
Definition of policenext
Synonyms for policenext
  • Police arrested a man whom they identified as the murderer.
  • The goal of the false police report is to prompt a SWAT team to respond to the target's home.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • One of the drivers left the Beltway crash scene, police said.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Nor did the man nicknamed Creeper, who was not among the six men shot at the house in Ruskin, police said.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 25 May 2023
  • While the teenager was still on the ground, the gunman then fired again, shooting him in the arm, Ralph told police.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The youngest victim in the Friday attack was just 12 years old, police said.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 19 June 2023
  • The officer was shot in an arm and was rushed to a hospital, police said.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • At least one woman was punched in the face by a man who then walked away while police were rushing to stop the group from fighting.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That feeling doesn’t just go away when police announce an all-clear.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • Wilson had shoplifted there at least five times before, the man told police.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • When police arrived, Huizar stopped pushing the cart and hopped a fence bordering the freeway.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he’s been the victim of an accident by the sea.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • The feds worked most of their cases with the tribal police detectives who were also there.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • Three male victims were also shot during the shootout, police said.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • The speed limit on South Street where the crash occurred is 30 miles per hour, according to a Waltham police report.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The package also showed a police badge, an L.A. flag, theaters on 42nd Street, cowboy boots and a bow and arrow.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Following the wreck, police ruled out drugs and alcohol as factors at the time.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2023
  • The witness came in, picked her up and took her downstairs to management until police were called.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Three teens killed and ate Faye, a village’s cherished swan, police say Just over six weeks later, Malama was found dead on the west coast of Oahu.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • Ten months after Brosso's death, police said Bernas' body was discovered floating in the canal.
    — CBS News, 8 June 2023
  • The felony murder charge carries a penalty of life in prison without parole, police said.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The woman was snorkeling with a friend around 3 p.m. local time when a shark attacked them, police said.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 25 May 2023
  • The complaint states Pelosi was unconscious on the ground as police restrained DePape.
    — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • It was seized in a search warrant raid conducted on the police department.
    — The Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The victim, an unidentified man, told officers that Ye punched him in the face multiple times, the police spokesman said.
    — Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • At that time, police also used pepper spray on people blocking the street, police said.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Half an hour later, police received a call about another hit-and-run of a cyclist, this one at Brad Drive and Edwards Street.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Restaurant staff had already alerted the police, and the 41-year-old Mercier was arrested.
    — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 1 May 2023
  • The citation was dropped Dec. 19 after her children spoke with police.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Witnesses told Hoover police that a tall, thin male entered the bank and demanded money from the teller.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 13 May 2023
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police

2 of 2 verb
  • The coast is policed by the military.
  • The officers police the streets for reckless drivers.
  • The international agency polices the development of atomic energy facilities.
  • The last decade spent learning about policing through school and jobs had all led to Riverside.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Some of us have had our weight policed by loved ones behind closed doors.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But even then, these coaches cannot police the children on the field.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The era of Pax Americana appears to be over, and the United States is no longer poised to police the world.
    — Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Carter spoke to police the night of the crash, an Athens-Clarke County police spokesperson said.
    — Steve Almasy, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • And policing Black women who are not owned by white men is centuries old.
    — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The report was made to police a day after Lewiston's back-to-back bloodshed.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But policing thousands of people in a small space would seem to be a labor Hercules would turn his back on.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Shots were first reported to police around 11:45 a.m., McMahill said.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • On Thursday, some of those same activists who worried about the fate of the policing bill expressed relief.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Men can police just by being big and muscular and tough.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 1 Jan. 2023
  • For much of the time since, there was little evidence that the N.C.A.A. was seeking to police these collectives.
    — Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • It had been assumed that, because of the privileged status of Rules, the people who got the job would police themselves.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
  • The Supreme Court is left almost entirely to police itself.
    — Propublica, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • States began working to ban choke holds and no-knock warrants, and cities rethought their entire approach to policing.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • There is only so much the Pentagon can do to police suppliers, Yoswa wrote.
    — Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The war that broke out last weekend between Israel and Hamas is one of the biggest tests of social-media’s content policing in years.
    — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The man refused to identify himself to police or exit the car, which had its windshield obscured with screens, Sharp said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Wells theorizes to police that someone may have spiked Nichols’ drink with something.
    — Shawn Nottingham, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Black hair has been policed, mocked and used as a mechanism to discriminate.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That team likely had little to do all night, but the entire ceremony felt, above all, policed.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The women blamed the church for their hesitancy in going to police about Masterson.
    — Andrew Dalton, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The law comes amid an alarming rise in traffic deaths as officials and advocates debate the role of policing in road safety.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The shirt referred to the nursing student who police allege was killed by a man who had crossed the southern border illegally.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Recent laws in both Texas and Florida have sought to impose greater restrictions on the way platforms can and cannot police content.
    — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
  • If this is right, Block is so bad at policing its own users that Dorsey himself is collateral damage in scamming.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The woman subsequently took a screenshot of the interaction and reported it to police on the same day.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024

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