How to Use military police in a Sentence

military police

noun
  • The award recognizes the top military police units in the U.S. Army.
    Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The next day, military police at Camp Pendleton found the girl in a barracks.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • So, when military police busted some of the campers smoking weed, the entire group was kicked out of the park.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • On June 28, military police at Camp Pendleton found the girl in a barracks.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Then head of the military police, Jammeh lead a bloodless coup that took control of The Gambia in 1994.
    Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Pursued by the military police, there is an episode in which the team helps an army corporal.
    Itxu Díaz, National Review, 16 May 2021
  • The violence has stretched the police and led at times to the deployment of military police.
    Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The action, following the death of a 7-year-old girl who was killed in her home by military police over the weekend, ground the nation’s economy to a halt.
    Fortune, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Today, at least 70 percent of guard members are military police transferred from the army and navy.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The cause of the accident was not immediately clear, a spokesman for the military police said.
    Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 23 May 2021
  • Black men are killed daily by the military police who patrol the streets of many poor – and heavily Black – neighborhoods in Brazil.
    Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
  • No one else was injured, and military police fired no shots during the standoff, Plymale said.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2020
  • Johnny says the day Frankie got back, two members of the armed service’s military police rounded him up and took him straight to a federal building.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Gonzalez was a firefighter, and Cody was with the military police.
    Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • We are guarded by three military police with machine guns. . . .
    David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Swayka has worked as a part-time military police officer with the Army Reserve, according to her LinkedIn page.
    Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2022
  • Casagrande said the weapon belongs to the former student’s father, a military police officer.
    Carla Bridi, ajc, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Casagrande said the weapon belongs to the former student's father, a military police officer.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2022
  • At its height, the compound was the headquarters for the military’s secretive courts and the military police who arrested those who fell afoul of the Kuomintang police state.
    Chris Horton, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • This could be done by mobilizing military police from Guard elements across the U.S. on rotations of three to six months.
    Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2021
  • In Brasilia, at least 100 military police with riot shields stood in front of Congress, and several dozen formed two lines behind barricades on the road leading to the Supreme Court.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The couple, both sergeants in the Marine Corps serving as military police at Quantico, exchanged their vows and snapped a few photos before rushing to the shelter.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The military identified the soldier who was killed, a female member of a combat battalion of the military police, as Sergeant Noa Lazar, 18.
    Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
  • They were surrounded by high concrete walls and barbed-wire fences, with guard dogs barking in the snow and military police patrolling between watchtowers.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Some of them are military police, others are working closely with the Syrian regime forces, others are involved in calling in air strikes.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The military identified the soldier who was killed, a female member of a combat battalion of the military police, as Sgt.
    Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Police in the southern province of Limburg said military police were sent as reinforcements to two cities.
    Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • When a deputy arrived, a military police officer said Lipari had a warrant for his arrest.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • On Tuesday, the Brazilian Supreme Court judge ordered military police to intervene in clearing roads.
    Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • NBC News has contacted the Dutch military police for further comment.
    NBC News, 24 Jan. 2022

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