How to Use policewoman in a Sentence

policewoman

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• The money is then pooled and is meant to help send ten policewomen abroad.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• She was placed in a midtown hotel with a policewoman at the door.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• Behind her, a block away, a uniformed policewoman turns the corner, and a young man in a striped T-shirt crosses the road.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
• The murder of a white policewoman by a black teenager set off a firestorm of debate, much of it racially charged.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• A day later, a third gunman, Mr. Coulibaly, shot and killed a policewoman in a street in Montrouge, a Paris suburb.
  — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
• Acharya got the idea for a series based around a policewoman when on vacation in the Himalayan foothill state of Himachal Pradesh.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Dec. 2021
• One day in December 2010, a policewoman in a small and rather humdrum town in Tunisia slapped the face of Mohamed Bouazizi.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
• The Clue in the Crumbling Wall, Nancy meets a savvy policewoman, groundbreaking for its day.
  — Michael Callahan, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2019
• The story spilled out in the cage at the Criminal Courthouse on Centre Street where the girl confided it to a policewoman.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• When cleaning up the mess in Westview, a policewoman pulls her aside and reveals herself as a shapeshifting alien Skrull.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
• Michelle Witmer, a military policewoman, was killed in a small arms attack, and Staff Sgt.
  — Mark Hertling, CNN, 28 May 2017
• The main character in the show is one such cop, policewoman Angela Abar (Regina King), a hero with complicated morals.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
• Loyd is accused of slaying his pregnant ex-girlfriend and a policewoman who tried to apprehend him.
  — Terrance Harris, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• The attacker used his two-day furlough to kill two policewomen and a bystander in Liege and an old friend outside the eastern industrial city.
  — Fox News, 1 June 2018
• The attack resembles one carried out in 2016 in the Belgian city of Charleroi, when two policewomen were injured after being stabbed.
  — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• Among the three men police said were being sought, two might have been killed in an explosion in the town of Alcanar, a Catalan regional policewoman said.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2017
• Munich police said in a tweet that the policewoman’s injuries were serious.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2017
• The next day, Coulibaly shot and killed a young policewoman after failing to attack a Jewish community center in the suburb of Montrouge.
  — Fox News, 17 Dec. 2020
• On Tuesday morning, the man stabbed two policewomen from behind before stealing their service weapons and using them to kill the officers.
  — Nina Dos Santos and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 30 May 2018
• On Gadhafi’s orders, men inside the embassy opened fire with submachine guns, wounding a number of the demonstrators and killing a British policewoman.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• To their right, earlier arrivals stayed warm behind a clear plastic sheet, protected by a pretty policewoman, and down those stairs Brenda, the volunteer, now came to meet the new Guatemalans.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 5 July 2019
• His crime: giving ― free of charge ― two joints to an undercover Detroit policewoman.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
• Writer Sally Wainwright, who is about as nervy as her flawed but heroic Yorkshire policewoman, never shied away from baring all with the hit police drama.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 1 Jan. 2023
• Five people were killed in the shootings and several were wounded, including a policewoman.
  — Geneva Sands, CNN, 9 Jan. 2022
• A few months ago, militants kidnapped a group of policewomen and a team of university professors who were on an oil exploration trip.
  — Jonathan Gopep, Dionne Searcey and Emmanuel Akinwotu, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• Her office was in the midst of prosecuting Markeith Loyd, who is accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and a policewoman.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017
• Other stories include an encounter between a serial killer and a policewoman, a courtship between a French colonel and his female driver, and the capture of British spy Hannah Szenes.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
• Here, with years of slow progress ahead of them, Jane and fellow policewoman Kath (Jessica Gunning) are largely tasked with fetching things, making tea, clearing away the tea and dispatching male colleagues to crime scenes.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 24 June 2017
• When not cooking or eating, Bruno chafes at red tape, worries about an ambitious policewoman, and mentors a star player on the local women’s rugby team.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2018
• These policewomen trained in both armed and unarmed combat in preparation for their law enforcement duties.
  — Longreads, 10 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024