How to Use police officer in a Sentence

police officer

noun

• As the driver draws the gun on the biker, a police officer can be seen rushing to the scene from across the street.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Elliott was the third San Diego police officer to be shot in the last 12 months.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
• One of the eight injured was a police officer who tried to stop the driver, Sewell said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The next morning, police officers saw the car and tried to pull the driver over, police said.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• In the summer of 1964, a young Black man named James Powell was shot dead by a police officer, and Harlem burned.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 16 July 2023
• The two men were at the bottom of the stairs when two San Francisco police officers arrived and one knocked on the front door.
  — Michael Finnegan, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• In Episode 1, the song starts within the first 10 minutes, as a child is writing down names for a police officer.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• When the door opened, the gunman open fired on a squad of police officers, who were trapped on a cramped hotel floor with no space to take cover.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Payne said a police officer came by and scared the bears off with a siren but the animals returned later in search of more food.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
• That baby won't get to be a future PG police officer or live his best life.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2024
• Smelling the odor of death at the front door of the house in the 800 block of Buffalo Court, police officers broke a glass back door, found the bodies and heard movement on the second floor.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2024
• Then, a couple of police officers show up and harass them.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
• The suspect dropped the handgun during the scuffle with the police officer, and a Target store employee kicked the gun away.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
• The school always has a former police officer on site when school is in session.
  — Savannah Tryens-Fernandes | [e-mail], al, 31 Mar. 2023
• Think about all these things that can be used to cross-examine and impeach a police officer.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The White police officers hit the Army man over the head, shot at him three times, and, eventually, arrested him.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• His death marked the first killing of an on-duty Oakland police officer in nearly 15 years.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Woodyard is one of three Aurora police officers and two paramedics charged in the death of McClain in 2019.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Dec. 2023
• An off-duty Phoenix police officer who was in the area near the store was alerted of the shoplifting attempt, police said.
  — Andrea Morabito, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2023
• Two days later, police officers found Mr. Grant on a park bench, a telltale pink on his right hand, pants and sneakers.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The school of 1,700 students also relies on a squad of off-duty police officers.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• The same year, the city paid almost $10 million to the families of two men who died in a freeway crash caused by an off-duty police officer.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
• And both could be found guilty of lying to a police officer, a high misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and as much as a $5,000 fine.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2024
• The third officer was shot and injured by a Boise police officer.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 2 July 2024
• The scene was cleared by about 3 p.m. Tustin police officers detained one person who walked away from the area where the firework went off, witnesses said.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• During a dispute about noise at a practice session, Mr. Knight swatted away the hand of a police officer.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• The registration fee covers everything from the safety pins on bibs to the police officers along the course.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
• Amid the tumult, a police officer shot and killed Larry Payne, an unarmed sixteen-year-old boy.
  — Clarence B. Jones, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
• Yet this very month, that same judge gave Ozzie Cush only a 46-week detention for assaulting a police officer at a demonstration.
  — Abigail Anthony, National Review, 18 Aug. 2024
• In late March, police officers arrested Mackenzie at his home in Malindi.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024