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 military police that are visible in the city are members of the Guard.
    Jonathan Lemire, Time, 1 June 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
  • To this day, the surfers who defied that ban and got chased by military police remain legendary.
    Daniel Duane, Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Russian military police quickly moved into the town, in a clear sign to Turkey not to attempt to retake it.
    Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Albert King, a Black soldier killed by a white military police officer in 1941, was blamed for his own death and buried in an unmarked grave.
    Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
  • No one else was injured, and military police fired no shots during the standoff, Plymale said.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2020
  • Some 82nd Airborne military police were brought into the area.
    CBS News, 7 June 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
  • The federal troops include two military police units and a rapid response force.
    Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 3 June 2020
  • Further units from Fort Bragg and Fort Drum consisted of military police.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
  • Gonzalez was a firefighter, and Cody was with the military police.
    Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Russian military police and Syrian border guards will enter areas to the east and west to ensure that the YPG vacates them as well.
    The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • The move was widely condemned as military police used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters gathering around Lafayette Park, so that Trump could stand in front of the church with a Bible in hand.
    Siraj Hashmi, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2020
  • Casagrande said the weapon belongs to the former student's father, a military police officer.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Casagrande said the weapon belongs to the former student’s father, a military police officer.
    Carla Bridi, ajc, 25 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
  • According to a citation filed in federal court, a military police officer at the second base received a radio call to respond to a parking lot where a man was claiming to have human remains.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024

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