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Example sentences for "policemen"

Lexicographically close words:
poleward; poli; police; policed; policeman; policie; policies; policing; policy; policyholders
  1. We got pretty sick of hearing about the reward Bony's father had offered, and about how the policemen came to the house and looked at Bony's bedroom window and everything and wrote it all down.

  2. The policemen were sort of crowding us back all the time, but we would n't go back much, and all at once Mamie Little started out of the crowd and began to run toward Swatty's father's shop.

  3. That was a good one on Bony, because the newspaper said the policemen said the burglar that bur-glared Bony's house wasn't a real burglar but only "local talent.

  4. So me and Swatty were mad at Bony and we wouldn't talk to him or let him play with us unless we got the ring back, and none of the policemen caught Bony's burglar.

  5. Not only did the men escape, but they fired revolvers at the policemen and narrowly missed one of them, who heard the bullet as it passed his head.

  6. The man disappeared into the darkness, and the policemen were unable to find him again.

  7. A lot of policemen heard the shot, and they | |all came running with their pistols and clubs in | |their hands.

  8. The two policemen shouted to the men to stop and fired their revolvers, but the fugitives, returning the fire over their shoulders, darted down Union Avenue, separated, and disappeared into apartment house doors.

  9. The policemen attributed the escape of the burglars entirely to the darkness.

  10. According to the policemen who attempted to capture the men, all of the lights in the Bronx were out at the time and heavy clouds made the streets black as midnight in a country village.

  11. Did they tell you at the | |Oak Street Station that the other policemen called | |Gene Happy Sheehan?

  12. The alarm was sent to the precinct station, and while the four policemen were following the burglars into the apartment houses, the reserves were hurrying to their assistance.

  13. The policemen all stopped talking when I came | |in, and then one of them told me it was against the | |rules to show me Gene at that time.

  14. All the policemen jumped at the man then, and one | |of them knocked the pistol out of his hand with a | |blow of a club.

  15. Policemen Rooney and O'Connell, who were several blocks away, heard the shots and ran to the scene.

  16. The witnesses consisted of the policemen present at the attack, the prisoners who were locked with Kelly and Deasey in the van, and the bystanders who saw the affray or assisted in stoning the prisoners before and after they were captured.

  17. I have to say that my clothes were kept for four hours by the policemen in Fairfield-station, and shown to parties to identify me as being one of the perpetrators of this outrage on Hyde-road.

  18. A scene of indescribable panic and confusion ensued; the policemen scrambled hastily to the ground, and betook themselves to flight almost without a thought of resistance.

  19. But last week, it seems these new-fangled policemen came to Town; and they heard there was a strange man who kept to himself all alone in a shack on the fen.

  20. So these policemen went out to the shack, and they recognized Luke by a mole on his arm.

  21. I said, "there's Luke himself in a sort of pulpit-thing with policemen each side of him.

  22. I never see one, but I wonder if he has been timing me, or quarrelling with my number-plates, or doing one or other of those things which policemen do, and we poor devils pay for.

  23. Do you think I'll serve with a man who sent policemen after his best customers?

  24. Three policemen stood at the door of the house, and a pretty crowd of loafers, such as a party in London can always bring together, watched the fun, although they couldn't make much of it.

  25. That's good--I particularly wish all the policemen to get our number.

  26. Half an hour later, in the chill of the October morning, heavy boots were scrunching the hoar-frost and along the empty streets moved in silence a company of policemen and detectives.

  27. I fancy we may take it that that is the signal which Mr. Pendarvon has arranged with his policemen friends.

  28. I wonder what they will do to our friend Pendarvon, and how long they will keep those dear policemen out--if I shall have time to do what I have to do.

  29. When the policemen asked her who had done it she said that the man was a stranger to her.

  30. I was so oppressed by the consciousness that he had only to send these policemen five doors along the street, and there was I.

  31. In Tashi-lunpo the cloister rule seems to be strictly enforced: there are especial inspectors, policemen and lictors who control the lives of the monks in their cells and take care that no one commits a breach of his vows.

  32. Two of these policemen are attached to me, to keep me a clear view, but they cause me more annoyance than satisfaction, for I have constantly to restrain them when they would strike half-naked youngsters who are not at all in the way.

  33. He had just taken a fancy to some goods of his master's; and had retreated, to enjoy them the more securely, into the southern forests, with a couple of brown policemen on his track.

  34. The two policemen were wandering around by the water's edge.

  35. The policemen on the beach were now walking back to join the others.

  36. The policemen continued walking toward the beach, heading to the right of the spaceship.

  37. For the policemen were not charging the house.

  38. No policemen were killed or injured in the explosion.

  39. Other policemen were appearing from the direction of the road, running anxiously toward the dogs, looking in the direction the dogs were pointing.

  40. Suddenly two policemen came into view on the screen, walking casually over the hill in which the opening was located.

  41. The others followed the policemen with their eyes.

  42. Colonel Harris drove directly towards his office at the mills, but this he could not reach as policemen guarded every approach.

  43. Everybody had money in the savings bank, or accumulations going into pretty homes, and mill stock, and all respected law and order, hence few if any policemen were ever seen on the streets.

  44. Policemen and detectives, however, were still kept on duty.

  45. Send at once a captain and twenty-five policemen in patrol wagons to the city hall.

  46. Citizens on the streets held their breath, and policemen feared the outcome.

  47. At once the mayor sent one hundred policemen in patrol wagons in pursuit of the rioters.

  48. I can admit to you that I listened to a little of what was going on from behind the door, and that those two policemen told me one or two things as well.

  49. Now it was all the breakfast he had and anyway, as he confirmed as soon as he took his first, big bite of it, it was far better than a breakfast he could have had through the good will of the policemen from the dirty café.

  50. The two policemen were standing there and chased him back into his bedroom as if that were a matter of course.

  51. How occupied he must have been with the supervisor and the policemen not to have recognised these three!

  52. Allow me," he said, and hurried between the two policemen through into his room.

  53. Nonetheless, he gave it no thought as he twisted himself round and leant over onto the rear shelf of the car to catch sight of the supervisor and the policemen if he could.

  54. The two policemen were entirely at the whip-man's mercy; he could have beaten them to death.

  55. He finally found his bicycle permit and was about to go back to the policemen with it when it seemed to him too petty, so he carried on searching until he found his birth certificate.

  56. He secretly told himself that he had succeeded in speeding things up by letting the policemen forget to make him have a bath.

  57. This was the room of a lady who I have a lot of respect for, and I was forced to look on while the supervisor and the policemen made quite a mess of this room because of me, although not through any fault of mine.

  58. Then, when they'd got him scraped and boiled, and most of his hair pulled out, a policemen came to arrest him for stealing the jug of molasses at a corner grocery.

  59. Do you suppose he wouldn't know something had happened with a squad of big, heavy policemen tromping all over the house?

  60. There are crowds on the streets, and the policemen seem to be on their metal!

  61. The boys were watched furtively by the policemen in that section of the city as they made their way along the streets with the dog, but they were not molested.

  62. Frenzied policemen hurled themselves into the midst of the disorganized militia, knocking up the ends of their muskets, begging the men to hold their fire.

  63. Policemen were shouting to the drivers to keep in line.

  64. I did so, and two policemen stepped in with a prisoner.

  65. Firemen and policemen were entering the huge building.

  66. About two fields off, a chauffeur in his leather gaiters and two large rural policemen were visible, running towards him as hard as they could go!

  67. There are intellectual policemen who are always telling us to "keep moving;" but what if I find a serener satisfaction in standing still?

  68. Servants were coming and going and policemen were here and there.

  69. But cannot you detectives and policemen find out the truth?

  70. The policemen who carried the corpse were followed by a police officer and a medical assistant.

  71. The policemen lifted the body and carried it down again.

  72. The dead man was taken from the cart by the policemen just in the same way as the first had been, and carried upstairs into the hospital.

  73. When the trap stopped, several policemen surrounded it, and taking the lifeless body of the convict under the arms, took him out of the trap, which creaked under him.

  74. The policemen with their burden had already crossed the yard, and were coming to the door of a cellar.

  75. Already the patch of brush in which lay the renegade Policemen was hidden in the smudge, shut away from our sight.

  76. MacRae brought the glasses to bear, and said it was two Policemen jogging toward camp.

  77. MacRae brought the glasses to bear on them at once, for there was always the unpleasant possibility of Mounted Policemen cutting in on our trail; the riders of every post along the line were undoubtedly on the watch for us.

  78. How long do you suppose it will take that fat slob to get a squad of these soldier-policemen on the trail of that ten thousand?

  79. London policemen often drop h's in one place and put them in at another.

  80. Then there was some difficulty in avoiding the policemen in the wood.

  81. There's many of you present who know me, and know that I have a large force of policemen on hand.

  82. Two laggard policemen are hastening down the street.

  83. At last two or three policemen have appeared upon the scene.

  84. Nor did the girls think of asking at the information bureau, or even questioning one of the uniformed policemen about the huge station.

  85. A curtain of smoke shut off the firemen and policemen in the front of the house from the auditorium itself.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "policemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.