POLICE in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for POLICE, such as:
1. They need to have ready access to police files.
2. The police gained access through a broken window.
3. His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.
4. The police are getting after the crooks in the city.
5. Delaveau for prefect of police, on account of his piety.
2. The police gained access through a broken window.
3. His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.
4. The police are getting after the crooks in the city.
5. Delaveau for prefect of police, on account of his piety.
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Meanings and Examples of POLICE
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police
n. the force of policemen and officers
v. maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure each other by making things happen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
2 No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their religious duty to intercept them.
3 Delaveau for prefect of police, on account of his piety.
4 Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris.
5 The ingenuous police of the Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought.
6 It is necessary for the good of the country that we should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, rural police, and councillors of state.
7 His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.
8 Chabouillet, the secretary of the Minister of State, Comte Angeles, then prefect of police at Paris.
9 Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority.
10 He entered the police; he succeeded there.
11 It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.
12 Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
13 This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion of the police.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
14 At that moment he was conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
15 From time to time she paused, and tenderly kissed the police agent's coat.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The police must be able to react swiftly in an emergency.
2 African-Americans have been complaining about police harassment for years.
3 He realised that it was improper for a police officer to accept gifts.
4 The police gained access through a broken window.
5 The police managed to gain access through an upstairs window.
6 They need to have ready access to police files.
7 According to the police, his attackers beat him with a blunt instrument.
8 The police put a barrier across the road to stop the traffic.
9 The local police took swift action against the squatters.
10 The police have kept the nightclub under surveillance because of suspected illegal drug activity.
11 Connors promised to give me a rundown on local police activity.
12 The police never caught him in any criminal activity but he eventually fell foul of the tax authorities.
13 The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
14 Courts can refuse to admit evidence obtained illegally by police.
15 The police are getting after the crooks in the city.