How to Use police dog in a Sentence

police dog

noun
  • Six white deputies and a police dog searched the bus for drugs and found none, the coach said.
    Alexis Stevens, ajc, 12 May 2022
  • Bosco is the canine police dog that was kind of at the heart of this case.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Deputies tried to use a police dog to track the man but could not find him.
    oregonlive, 9 July 2020
  • Video shows a police dog enter the store and attack the man.
    Lauryn Schroeder, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
  • When the man would not come out of the house, police entered with a police dog.
    Staff, cleveland, 31 July 2022
  • Bays, who had a police dog with him, joined the pursuit.
    Kayla Epstein, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • He was caught by a police dog, and the gun — thought to have been used in the murder — was fished out by the dive team.
    Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Some people think a mean dog will make a good police dog, and that’s just not the case.
    Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The fourth was arrested thanks to help from a police dog.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Ralph Frasure, 60; and a police dog named Drago were killed in the shootout.
    Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2022
  • Officers rushed to help, and one of them led the police dog away.
    oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The death of Sir marked only the second time a San Diego police dog has been killed in the line of duty.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The Circleville police statement did not comment on the fate of the police dog.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 July 2023
  • The officer asked a colleague to come with a police dog.
    Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The police dog, named Ozzy, and the officer were off-duty when the dog was found dead last week.
    Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Police said Bates then opened fire, hitting Stewart in the chest and police dog Rakkie in the leg.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2022
  • With the help of police dog, officers found two more teens.
    Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Two of them pressed him into the hood while a third stood a few feet away, keeping a police dog at bay.
    Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The deputy released his police dog to get the man into handcuffs.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
  • An East Hartford police dog found the gun the driver had tossed during the foot chase, Litwin said.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Two other officers and a police dog were sent to the scene.
    oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2021
  • While Brennan was on the ground with the police dog on top of him, Rogers told him to get on the ground again and put his hands behind his back.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Officers used a police dog to search the inside of her car, then her trunk.
    Lauryn Schroeder, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • And a police dog, shot in the face, is being treated and is expected to live.
    Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The police dog was shot when its handler sent it in to try and take Hawthorne into custody, Lewis said.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Officers, with the help of a police dog, searched the area but didn’t locate any of the occupants.
    oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Gaver stabbed the dog and made a run for it before stabbing a second police dog who had tried to bring him down.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 1 May 2024
  • Then to pile on to that, there was a situation where in the 90s, there was a police dog that went missing in the county.
    Mary Ellen Cagnassola, PEOPLE.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Monday marks the first day of school, and Coco — the first gun-detecting police dog in the district — will be there.
    Lauren Brensel, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Law enforcement officers and police dogs were still sweeping the buildings as of about noon Friday.
    Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2024

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