How to Use policewoman in a Sentence

policewoman

noun
  • The money is then pooled and is meant to help send ten policewomen abroad.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • She was placed in a midtown hotel with a policewoman at the door.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The murder of a white policewoman by a black teenager set off a firestorm of debate, much of it racially charged.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • There, an Atlanta policewoman met them and appeared to tell them to back up with a gesture.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • That policewoman has since been relieved of duty.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 23 June 2026
  • Boyd’s meeting with the policewoman, Acosta, bugged me as well.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Loyd is accused of slaying his pregnant ex-girlfriend and a policewoman who tried to apprehend him.
    — Terrance Harris, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Munich police said in a tweet that the policewoman’s injuries were serious.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • In episode 2, Amanda is admonished by a policewoman for doing the splits in the station.
    — Nicole Briese, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • When cleaning up the mess in Westview, a policewoman pulls her aside and reveals herself as a shapeshifting alien Skrull.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Cunningham did not back up until after exchanging words with the policewoman.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Elizabeth no longer fears being a dropout, and thinks about becoming a policewoman — a dream inspired by her uncle’s smart uniform.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Elizabeth no longer fears being a dropout, and thinks about becoming a policewoman — a dream inspired by her uncle’s smart uniform.
    — Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Five people were killed in the shootings and several were wounded, including a policewoman.
    — Geneva Sands, CNN, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Michelle Witmer, a military policewoman, was killed in a small arms attack, and Staff Sgt.
    — Mark Hertling, CNN, 28 May 2017
  • Acharya got the idea for a series based around a policewoman when on vacation in the Himalayan foothill state of Himachal Pradesh.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The attacker used his two-day furlough to kill two policewomen and a bystander in Liege and an old friend outside the eastern industrial city.
    — Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • The Clue in the Crumbling Wall, Nancy meets a savvy policewoman, groundbreaking for its day.
    — Michael Callahan, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2019
  • On Tuesday morning, the man stabbed two policewomen from behind before stealing their service weapons and using them to kill the officers.
    — Nina Dos Santos and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 30 May 2018
  • Among the three men police said were being sought, two might have been killed in an explosion in the town of Alcanar, a Catalan regional policewoman said.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Former policewoman Nerea, dismissed from the force, is drawn back when ritualistic murders emerge, confronting ghosts of her past and city’s underworld.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The story spilled out in the cage at the Criminal Courthouse on Centre Street where the girl confided it to a policewoman.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Her office was in the midst of prosecuting Markeith Loyd, who is accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and a policewoman.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Shifa Hospital said the strike on the police station killed at least 14 including four policewomen, civilians and inmates.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The main character in the show is one such cop, policewoman Angela Abar (Regina King), a hero with complicated morals.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • On Gadhafi’s orders, men inside the embassy opened fire with submachine guns, wounding a number of the demonstrators and killing a British policewoman.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Shifa Hospital said the strike on the police station killed at least 14 people including four policewomen, civilians and inmates.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The next day, Coulibaly shot and killed a young policewoman after failing to attack a Jewish community center in the suburb of Montrouge.
    — Fox News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • One day in December 2010, a policewoman in a small and rather humdrum town in Tunisia slapped the face of Mohamed Bouazizi.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The attack resembles one carried out in 2016 in the Belgian city of Charleroi, when two policewomen were injured after being stabbed.
    — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 29 May 2018

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