How to Use policeman in a Sentence

policeman

noun
  • And you guys are the policemen out there on the field.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • One policeman was slashed in the neck with a knife last month.
    — NBC News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • My grand plan was to be one of the policemen in one of the episodes.
    — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 21 June 2026
  • The policeman asked where the shell was.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The stunned policemen opened the door.
    — Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • They are ordered to the ground and kicked by one of the policemen.
    — NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The first city policemen to reach the area were ordered away.
    — Johnny Miller — Jack Viets, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • He was stopped by policemen, who heard the story and waved them on.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 16 July 2025
  • And the policeman on their beat Comes by and knows them by their faces.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But the boots are on the feet of a policeman, or maybe even a politician.
    — Rachel Nolan, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • Eight policemen and at least four civilians died.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
  • After a pause the policeman bent over and laid into the man again.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The policeman told him people were waiting at his house to tell him the news.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And then this guy coming with a gun out does not see the short policeman behind me.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • That’s better than if a policeman sees a suspect and shoots and kills him.
    — IndyStar, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The explosion took off both of the policeman’s legs and an arm.
    — WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • Hugh went to the youngster’s house with a policeman and got the dollar back.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
  • From a young age, women are taught to look for a policeman if something goes wrong.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The report did not say whether the policeman was home at the time or harmed in the attack.
    — Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • My dashing policeman needed to be in peak form.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And one of my greatest compliments is that a lot of policemen are fans of the show.
    — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • But that night a policeman came to the house and told her James had been arrested.
    — Essence, 13 Feb. 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
  • In his adult life, Coles lived in a neighborhood of policemen.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Two corrupt policemen who commit the crime try to stop the youth and retrieve the video, but to no avail.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Disgruntled, the policemen stormed out of the house.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • That was very difficult, to see the policeman put his knee on his neck, to see that happen to that man.
    — The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The clip begins with a battle between policemen and the singers.
    — Suzette Fernandez, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2017

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