How to Use police cruiser in a Sentence

police cruiser

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  • The name of the driver of the police cruiser is not listed on the crash report.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Someone hurled a brick that smashed the rear window of a police cruiser.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • During the search a man armed with a butcher knife appeared in front of a police cruiser.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • The officer ordered Weiland out of the truck, handcuffed him and placed him in the police cruiser.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Steinke placed Rios-Gonzalez handcuffed in the back of the Platteville police cruiser, which was parked on train tracks.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 July 2023
  • The two responding officers placed the snake in a container in the back seat of a police cruiser.
    Greg Smith, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2024
  • Renner wrote over a second video, which shows the vehicle rolling down a paved road with a police cruiser in front of it.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In one video on her Facebook page, a firework explodes just feet away from a police cruiser with lights on.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 July 2024
  • One summer’s night, the two comrades went out for beers, then drove home in Proctor’s police cruiser.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The spoon was large enough that officers had to take it away by securing it to the roof of a police cruiser with rope, Foster said.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The video shows members of the crowd filming the approaching police cruiser on smartphones.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 27 July 2023
  • With one cop on foot and the other behind the wheel of the police cruiser, the officers managed to grab Castro Mata and tackle him to the ground.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
  • The women comforted the baby and brought him to a nearby police cruiser.
    Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • At the intersection of Columbia Road and 14th Street, about a block from the Metro, sat a single police cruiser.
    Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Weiland and the children all raised their hands inside the truck, then the officer drew his gun, crouched behind the door of the police cruiser and pointed his gun at the truck, the lawsuit said.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Pessoa threw Lafrance into his police cruiser and punched him in the mouth, before driving to the police station.
    Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • One officer ran after him on foot, while the other followed in the police cruiser.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 June 2024
  • Out of nowhere, a police cruiser hurtled down the avenue, despite the red light commanding traffic to stop.
    USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The 63-year-old retired machinist tinkered with his car, an old police cruiser, for a couple of months.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But when that car started rusting, it was taken down, and a police cruiser donated by GM in 1995 went up in its place.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The agency released body camera footage of the encounter, which shows a deputy arrive on scene and tell a man repeatedly to put his hands on the hood of a police cruiser.
    Laura Studley, CNN, 4 July 2023
  • Owen took Green out of the Buick, cuffed his hands behinds his back and then seated him in the front passenger seat of a police cruiser, according to police records.
    Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Dial can also be seen pulling a bloodied Irizarry out of the car and then, with the second officer at the scene, carrying him to their police cruiser.
    Mark Osborne, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Ralphie, who was bullied by Scut but raged back in the original movie, now finds himself in the back of Scut’s police cruiser and anticipates the worst.
    Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The encounter ends with Nichols slumped to the ground in handcuffs, leaning against a police cruiser unattended as officers mill about.
    Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Police said in court documents that Caldwell reversed the truck in to the police cruiser before taking off again.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Not too long later, the young men were stopped by a Capital Police officer who drove up in his police cruiser.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One person criticized the look of Miami’s police cruiser, saying that the design missed the mark.
    Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Diaz dashes toward a Sweetwater police cruiser a few cars away away and pounds on the window.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The officer cuffed her and kept her in his police cruiser for 15 minutes while her children were unattended.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2023

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