How to Use police procedural in a Sentence

police procedural

noun

• Take a genre such as the police procedural, the space opera, or the vampire romance.
  — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• This recount of the search for Short's killer isn't a police procedural.
  — Piu Eatwell, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• The police procedural went on to have a 12-season run at the network.
  — Miles Beller, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2022
• The remainder of High and Low is one of the strongest police procedurals of all time.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
• There’s even a story by Ed McBain, a master of the police procedural.
  — John J. Miller, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• On Saturday, May 11, Priem — a grip who worked on the police procedural — died at age 66.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
• The news comes as the police procedural, which is based on the Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent novels, has aired five episodes of its second season.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• The show is a gritty police procedural; its true genre, however, is the fairy tale.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2019
• The novel’s blend of police procedural and horror works well.
  — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
• Neubauer's background could have prepared her to write police procedurals or the kind of two-fisted thrillers that Whitefish Bay's Nick Petrie writes.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2020
• Harry Bosch is back on the case — but not for long, as police procedural Bosch: Legacy is set to return for a third and final season.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
• But now, the police procedural is revealing some happy news for a change: The show has been renewed for Season 10!
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2019
• An expat who has lived in Venice for many years, the lambent Ms. Leon writes police procedurals with pith and grace and case-closing narrative drive.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 29 May 2024
• Of course, recent episodes have proved that the popular police procedural doesn’t shy away from letting other famous celebrities from the ‘80s and ‘90s in on the fun.
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 25 Feb. 2022
• There are a few different flavors — the straight-up police procedural, the more cable-y court thriller, the legal drama.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
• Critics and showrunners alike say that the police procedural, the most American genre, is in crisis.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Like Flowers in Sand pairs its wrestling with a tight police procedural and commentary on struggling coastal towns.
  — Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
• Murder will out as the police procedural returns for a third season.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• In fact, the very genre of police procedural has its origin in Weimar Cinema—as do many of the investigative techniques the genre relies on.
  — Adrian Daub, New Republic, 14 Feb. 2018
• On April 26, CBS announced that the police procedural would end after three seasons.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
• This time, Soffer is stepping behind the camera to direct episode 16 of the police procedural, EW can confirm.
  — Justine Browning, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Like yarn stretched across a bulletin board in a scene from a police procedural, this early monkey brain network was difficult to parse link by link.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
• This series is going to be more action-packed than the Kubu books, which are really police procedurals.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
• Their decision to sell up after such a short time no doubt has to do with the police procedural getting canceled in April after three seasons.
  — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 July 2024
• One of the best police procedurals of the 2010s is set and shot in Montreal, and is an English-language adaptation of a French-Canadian series.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• The series is framed as a police procedural, but also a contest for an object, and an answer, between better and worse factions, which is not quite to say good and bad.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• The police procedural and legal drama is returning to NBC on Feb. 24 with both new and former cast members.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2022
• Deadwind Foreign language police procedurals are a dime a dozen on Netflix—and thank goodness for that.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2018
• If one of them steals the show, it’s Bellisle; her characters include the cliched victim of a TV police procedural and a woman convinced that her friend’s ex is a murderer.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• In his long career, Graf has made everything from neo-noir thrillers to period romance, from coming-of-age comedy to police procedurals.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024