How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

noun
  • The United States cannot be the policeman of the world.
    — NBC News, 31 July 2019
  • 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
  • One policeman was slashed in the neck with a knife last month.
    — NBC News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Sure enough, two policemen came to his home the next day.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The first city policemen to reach the area were ordered away.
    — Johnny Miller — Jack Viets, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • The report did not say whether the policeman was home at the time or harmed in the attack.
    — Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • Hugh went to the youngster’s house with a policeman and got the dollar back.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The policeman told him people were waiting at his house to tell him the news.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a short policeman behind me with a gun straight on my back and one on the driver of the car.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The ad in the TV Guide and the newspaper was of a policeman with a bag of doughnuts with a bite out of one of them.
    — cleveland, 31 Jan. 2021
  • The explosion took off both of the policeman’s legs and an arm.
    — WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • After a pause the policeman bent over and laid into the man again.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The killing of a black man by a policeman’s knee to the neck awoke something in Ms. White, by her own account.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
  • At the river’s edge, the boyfriend bribed a policeman, and the two climbed into a boat that dropped them on the other side.
    — Smita Sharma, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The postman, the fireman, the policeman and clerk at the convenience store, the ladies at the dry cleaner.
    — Kyle Ringo, Houston Chronicle, 27 May 2018
  • But that night a policeman came to the house and told her James had been arrested.
    — Essence, 13 Feb. 2025
  • And one of my greatest compliments is that a lot of policemen are fans of the show.
    — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • And then this guy coming with a gun out does not see the short policeman behind me.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • In 2016 alone, two Kansas City, Kan., policemen were killed in the line of duty.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 20 June 2018
  • That’s better than if a policeman sees a suspect and shoots and kills him.
    — IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The suspect collided with the policeman causing the chainsaw to fall to the floor.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The suspect collided with the policeman causing the chainsaw to fall to the floor.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The policeman with whom Ivan comes in fatal contact is mourned on stage.
    — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Americans are said to be tired of being the world’s policeman, and who can blame them.
    — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • One time, an actor was hired to dress up as a policeman and arrest one of the teens—leaving them in tears.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • 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

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