How to Use police state in a Sentence

police state

noun

• Or even an area that doesn’t face that much of a police state.
  — cleveland, 6 June 2021
• The life of an artist in a police state is very tricky — always has been.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Nov. 2023
• For too long the world has overlooked the atrocities of the Cuban police state.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 16 July 2017
• But Venezuela is now a police state at war with its people.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
• But no hand belongs here, in an iron-fist, cake-pop police state.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• Is the climate crisis and a police state the price society must pay to support the arts?
  — Rhonda Lieberman, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019
• When the movie opens, the pillars and crossbeams of the USSR’s police state are still in place, but the foundation is showing cracks.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• While in prison, he was tortured, of course — this is routine in police states — and he was also made to work.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 June 2024
• Noah has joked in his standup about daily life under a racist police state, even about the day his mother was shot in the head.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
• Most of the time, the world will side with the system — the white supremacist police state — and the low wage worker will be the one who loses out.
  — refinery29.com, 19 June 2020
• In the video, police state that Ryan is holding something in his hands, and then identify it as a weapon.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2022
• After police put down spike strips, the truck crashed in Wood Village at about 1 a.m., police state.
  — oregonlive, 22 May 2021
• To an American like me, Australia feels more like a police state.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2024
• Cornyn declaring that this idea that the judge is guilty until proven innocent is like a police state.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• The problem was not so much him but the police state of Eygpt where fear is still used to suppress the population.
  — Marie Claire, 25 Feb. 2010
• After the shooting, Sicairos and his friend fled the scene, police state in arrest documents.
  — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2022
• That state now places its trust in the force of arms, and so must resort to the vocabulary of a police state, as in South Africa or Algeria.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• But these protesters risk the wrath of a police state in sticking up for its foreign victims.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Both attacked the Aurora man, stabbed him and took his phone, police stated.
  — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 22 Sep. 2017
• Atlanta police stated that the Chicago native was not in custody as of press time.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 30 May 2019
• Would that be the conviction that one-party police states are bad and democracies good?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 July 2023
• The human rights violations occurring in the province are the product of the police state in the region.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
• That is by design, and it is reinforced by the country’s ruthless police state.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
• The news release from Lubbock police stated that six family members were inside the car at the time of the shooting.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 10 Feb. 2018
• The right is using it as a smokescreen for a power grab, one that seeks to regress California to a Reagan-era police state.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
• Networks of face-recognition cameras are part of the police state China has built in Xinjiang, in the country’s far west.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Hong Kong is becoming more and more like a police state, like a tyranny like Beijing,’’ Leung said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• Criticizing the leader of a police state in a public poll during a war would be quite stupid, and the Russian people aren’t stupid.
  — WSJ, 17 Apr. 2022
• Certainly, nothing is said about the Black women who have been victimized by the police state.
  — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
• Now, Russia is a brutally repressive police state run by a small group of hard-liners who have imposed ever-harsher policies both at home and abroad.
  — Daniel Treisman, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024