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Example sentences for "police"

Lexicographically close words:
polemists; polenta; poles; poleward; poli; policed; policeman; policemen; policie; policies
  1. In reversal of previous policy, a police party was sent to search for the self-styled ausland committee, with orders to capture or kill on sight.

  2. The police party hunted down and killed six deserters, dragged eleven more back to the occupied zone, under the very eyes of the native population.

  3. The officers wore police armbands, and they asked for Meikl's fraternization permit, using the spacer's tongue.

  4. The police activity along the border approached the proportions of a massacre.

  5. I see your point, sir--to introduce the idea that there's more to this than the police think.

  6. The police followed him in silence down the passage.

  7. No, let the police go on their own lines--we're on others.

  8. We shall have to let the police know of this.

  9. But--the police have a strong case against him.

  10. There was a case, a strong prima facie case against Hyde, and the police would work it up for all they were worth.

  11. For some reason, best known to themselves, the police brought forward more evidence than was usual on first proceedings before a magistrate.

  12. But when the prosecution had done with him, Mr. Millington-Bywater rose and quietly asked the police to produce the watch, chain and ring which the greengrocer had found, in their original wrappings.

  13. Look here; if you police want to do justice, why don't you try to track the man whom Hyde has told of?

  14. To get police into a quarter like this is as bad as putting a light to dry straw.

  15. If I see you here in an hour's time the police shall turn you out.

  16. I know the police called, and I seem to remember rather a nasty letter from the landlord's agent.

  17. Lily acquiesced entirely in the extraordinary coincidence of the father and the chief of police appearing upon the scene.

  18. Then the chief of police discovered that his own horse had gone.

  19. Johnny's father was leaning out of his buggy, looking back at the chief of police in his, and the mare was jogging very slowly in a perfect reek of dust.

  20. The soldiers and police had joined forces, and once more a dozen men clutched him, spilling over him like football players in a scrimmage.

  21. But now the police had managed to pry their way into the mass by dint of indiscriminate battering.

  22. It was the clanging of the police patrol as it swung to a halt and a body of reserves poured out.

  23. If I'd set him ashore, he'd probably have been in the police court the next morning.

  24. There were few who wished more action, for the police reserves were capturing man after man.

  25. The police sergeant rose and whirled with lifted club.

  26. For many years he was a police officer and jailer in the West.

  27. Give us men who serve Christ to be our servants, and we need less police and a smaller fire brigade.

  28. Is it not true that nearly all the police are needed by those who frequent the Public- house?

  29. The police accept it as a plain case of attempted theft," he said.

  30. Something in Paul's inner mind felt grateful that the car awaiting was a standard model of police car instead of the traditional patrol wagon.

  31. Three or four blocks along, the bright blue lights of the police station called like a lighthouse, marking the Journey's End.

  32. Then Grayson's manacles fell away as the squad car drove up in front of the police station.

  33. The sergeant went to the police car and spoke to the main office over the radio.

  34. He wanted to get on the radio himself and roar out explanations, to exhort them to greater effort-- The siren wail of the police car cut into his thoughts and Paul raced to the door to fling it open.

  35. Dump their rig and the drunken cops right in front of the station," chuckled the driver of the police car.

  36. He looked out of the police car and saw the spaceport only a few moments away.

  37. Paul's mathematically-inclined mind went to work; it was less than two minutes since the police car left.

  38. He felt like an outsider, watching a complete stranger being led in docility towards a police car by a uniformed policeman, obviously the perpetrator of some outrageous, illegal, immoral, unethical act.

  39. Another few seconds of delay until he could dial the number of the municipal police department.

  40. He wanted desperately to listen to the radio in the police car.

  41. The troopers, when they do make a capture of the culprits, bring them in on chains, to the police quarters.

  42. At length the Minister of Police decided that such a state of things should no longer be allowed to continue.

  43. Almost before I was aware of it, two gendarmes, who had accompanied a little, shabbily-dressed police agent, seized me.

  44. Remember, the Ministry of Police are liberal, and you will be well paid for your information.

  45. I had, he told me, been found by the police early one morning lying in a back street in Kensington in a state of collapse, owing to injuries I had received on the head.

  46. Screaming hysterically, she shouted terrible imprecations in some language I was unable to understand; and eventually, after a doctor had seen her, I allowed the police to take her to the station, where she was charged as a lunatic.

  47. Both were known to have landed on the Queensland coast after a perilous voyage; but they had disappeared before the Australian police were communicated with, and all efforts to trace them had been futile.

  48. Adine, pale and weeping, threw herself between him and his captors, but she was roughly thrust aside, and he was handcuffed and conveyed away to the Police Bureau.

  49. The Third Section of Imperial Police have not been idle, and as a result of their inquiries, a warrant has been issued.

  50. We were compelled to leave hurriedly, and as the Secret Police were watching both you and me it was unsafe for us to meet.

  51. He kept me constantly in his thrall by threatening to give information to the police that I had committed murder.

  52. Well, in the first place, the enchantress you knew as Doroteita d'Avendano was none other than the notorious Liseta Gonzalez, known to the police as `The Golden Hand.

  53. You're the police but I am a business man.

  54. Generally, for the moment, that was the verdict, one in which the police had already collaborated.

  55. I'll go so far as to lay you another basket of pippins that the police can't produce another like it.

  56. Probably no matter what he contrived, the police would ferret her out.

  57. If the police knew certain things they would nab Lennox.

  58. The extraordinary perspicacity of the police who had nailed and returned the violin instanter, this wizardry that would have thrown any one else into stupors of bewilderment, interested him not at all.

  59. If the police could look behind the scenes, logically they would say to her, "Thou art the man.

  60. Three hundred and fifty soldiers were immediately ordered out; the police were released from their confinement on the road-side, and the army marched to the villages of the 'Rallyites.

  61. One of the police officers, who escaped from the mob, made his way to town and alarmed the government.

  62. The police were overpowered, and after being ducked in the river by the mob, they were tied together by the hands and feet and left on the road; the Protestants returning to the mountains with their rescued comrades.

  63. The detective police had been busy during the interval between Frisbie's arrest and arraignment, and they had succeeded in collecting a mass of evidence and a number of witnesses besides old Katie.

  64. I should not in the least wonder if that is a detachment of police coming to tell us that Lord Vincent has broken prison, and bringing a warrant to search this house for him," said Claudia, half rising to listen.

  65. To the police station house, for the night.

  66. The sitting police magistrate disposes of them.

  67. Then she ordered a fly and drove to the police station--at that time a mean little stone edifice, exceedingly repulsive without and excessively filthy within.

  68. As the day broadened and the hour arrived for the sitting of the police magistrate, the policemen came in and marched off the crowd of culprits to a hall in another part of the building, where they were to be examined.

  69. Claudia knew that the eye of the police was still on the castle, because it was believed to hold the undetected murderer of Ailsie Dunbar, and that, therefore, their action upon the present event would be prompt and keen.

  70. I know that I ought to have summoned the police and given the man in charge on the spot, as a common burglar and housebreaker: only you see I did not think of it at the time.

  71. The police held possession of the premises for nearly a week, and the coroner's jury sat day after day; but all to no purpose, as far as the discovery of the perpetrator of the crime was concerned.

  72. And the cheers were given with such a hearty will that citizens more than a block away turned hastily to ask one of the other why the police allowed such a disturbance to be made at that hour.

  73. The crowd was like a rolling sea by this time, and only the efficiency of the fine police work kept anything like order.

  74. First of all--I suppose the police are quite satisfied with the alibis of you and Mr. Hendricks?

  75. You will call the police against my desire--my command!

  76. It was quite clear that uppermost in her disturbed mind was the dread of the disgrace of the police inquiry.

  77. I will have no police dragged into this matter.

  78. Here's the whole house turned upside down with a murder and police and all that, and nobody considers me!

  79. Fibsy explained that in the interests of a police investigation it might be better to acquiesce than to question why, and the young man proved obliging.

  80. You see, the police are the people who must settle that doubt.

  81. Why cannot it be an item of duty for the rural police to give information of his extortion and neglect?

  82. You know I wrote to the inspector of police at Hampton.

  83. But young Burt will not trouble police or magistrates much longer now," said the doctor.

  84. John McCutcheon gave me a farewell dinner tonight of which I got one half, as the police made me go on board at nine, although we do not sail until five in the morning.

  85. Experience in choosing a place and police regulations made it so simple that we went straight to our seats and got away again without as much trouble as it would have taken to have gone to a matinee.

  86. At last I found an inspector of police on horseback, who agreed to get me to the stand if it took a leg.

  87. But before the actual robbery took place, Richard had obtained enough evidence against his crook companions to turn them over to the police and eventually land them in prison.

  88. It was a case of "Can't get away to cable you today; police won't let me!

  89. They are good for nothing, except to get through the police lines.

  90. Make two sticks of it," said McCloy, "and then go back to the Jefferson police court.

  91. Ken hoisted the front end of one of the police cars and slid under it on a creeper.

  92. Outside, he selected the best of the three police horses and headed up out of town, over the brittle snow with its glare ever-reminding of the comet.

  93. He ought to call the Sheriff and have the police cars search for him, but there were no phones and no cars.

  94. He leveled his police pistol and fired steadily into the oncoming ranks.

  95. All their horses will be turned over to the police officers for use in their commands.

  96. The police officers will act as his lieutenants.

  97. After we get these police and other priority cars out of the way, maybe we can get a quick look at what's wrong with yours.

  98. He had scarcely started when he heard a yell from Joe who was beneath the other police car.

  99. Mrs. Larsen let her go without protest, but the two women watched anxiously as the young people rode toward town on the police horse.

  100. He spoke of the problems of medical care without adequate hospital facilities, of police activities that might be required in a period of stress such as they could expect that winter.

  101. He has been in penal servitude three times, and his last term was for seven years, with police supervision.

  102. The police moved us on, but we went back as soon as they had gone.

  103. One case in illustration of this is that of a girl who was once a respectable servant, the daughter of a police sergeant.

  104. In the middle of the hymn he walked out and went to the police station and gave himself up.

  105. The week before her first confinement he kicked her black and blue from neck to knees, and she was carried to the police station in a pool of blood, but; she was so loyal to the wretch that she refused to appear against him.

  106. In the large towns beggary was an organised imposture, with a sort of government and police of its own.

  107. The police have so many other duties besides the shepherding of criminals that it is unfair to saddle the latter with the whole of the cost of the constabulary.

  108. Police found him and returned him to Birmingham; his reception being an unmerciful thrashing from the drunken stepfather.

  109. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

  110. Humours and oddities of the London police courts.

  111. The chief of police at the place came to me from time to time, saying, "Have you seen anything illegal?

  112. The messenger brought word to send us to the police office, and there we went.

  113. This was simply a cell in the police prison, and there we ate what the miralai saw fit to order for us.

  114. There were at that time (and no doubt still are) retained under the Australian police force a number of native trackers, called the "Black Police.

  115. What do you want to mix the police in this thing for?

  116. This work of the police filled Trueman with a negative satisfaction.

  117. At midnight, Monday night, the police of Ottawa arrested a man who was trying to get out of town on a freight train.

  118. Chief of Police Cooley is in reality chief collector.

  119. The police graft is one of the richest Stone has.

  120. Burton and Sanders=, two police officers from La Grange, Ills.

  121. The Chicago police are hard at work on her case, and you can trust them to do whatever can be done.

  122. I'm going to call on the police authorities here and get men out hunting for Brady.

  123. That was before the police found out that Brady was a thief, but Brady knew the discovery was coming, so he got rid of everything he owned in South Chicago.

  124. Harris was a member of the South Chicago police force, and was a good friend of Motor Matt.

  125. After you left, I called up police headquarters in the city and asked after Dave Glennie--just thought I'd make sure I hadn't sent you into trouble.

  126. This is the first clue the police have had as to where they are.

  127. I decided at once that I would turn the paper over the chief of police in South Chicago, and I had left my friends' house to start for there when a man stopped me on the street.

  128. Harris, after he had returned to headquarters to report, called up the Chicago police department.

  129. Helen knew the police were looking for my son, just as they were for the other members of my gang who had escaped the officers, and she did not dare to go back to her friends and tell them where she was going.

  130. The River Forest police put some one else in charge of the place, and have cabled to the Caspars, in Paris.

  131. With the Hawk, he can snap his fingers at all the detectives and police officers, and it's a cinch he'll come this way.


  132. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "police" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arm; authority; bless; champion; clean; cloak; constabulary; copyright; cover; cushion; defend; ensure; fence; fend; fuzz; groom; guarantee; guard; harbor; haven; heat; insure; keep; nestle; officer; patent; patrol; patrolman; police; policeman; posse; protect; register; safeguard; screen; secure; shelter; shield; shroud; tidy; trap; trim; trooper; underwrite; vigilantes; watch


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    police agent; police court; police department; police headquarters; police magistrate; police officer; police officers; police regulations; police station