Example sentences for: police

How can you use “police” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Times reports that those recommendations would make "racist language or behaviour" criminal and would allow racial attacks to be defined by the victim not the police (if the victim says they're racist, they are).

  • The Post reports, based on several unnamed well-placed Pentagon sources, that unlike in the Gulf War, the preponderance of planned strikes are now targeted against so-called "leadership" targets: not so much air defense sites or depots, as, for example, secret police headquarters.

  • the political solution to the Kosovo crisis ." They include 1) "withdrawal from Kosovo of military, police and paramilitary forces," 2) "deployment in Kosovo of effective international civil and security presences," and 3) "substantial self-government for Kosovo."

  • While this latest ensemble show about an urban police precinct echoes Bochco's other work (mainly Hill Street Blues ), it is called "self assured and polished" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). And critics praise its social conscience, taking especial note of its unsparing depictions of police brutality.

  • The LAT for instance, tells its readers that, "awash in fireworks and fired-up patriotism, China celebrates the end of 156 years of 'national disgrace,' regaining a tiny patch of land ceded after a humiliating war and eyed enviously for a century," while the NYT can't keep to itself about the police band members at the ceremonies in their "snow white tunics" and the attendance there "of representatives of each of the territory's services, from the Correctional Services Department to the Auxiliary Medical Service."


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