[
US
/pəˈɫis/
]
[ UK /pəlˈiːs/ ]
[ UK /pəlˈiːs/ ]
NOUN
-
the force of policemen and officers
the law came looking for him
VERB
- maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol
How To Use police In A Sentence
- There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
- It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
- According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.
- The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
- Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am.
- Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces? See, it's not all about the election today.
- The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
- Police believe a gang of up to five men were responsible for a raid on a Melksham store in which hundreds of pounds were stolen from an unlocked office.
- He said residents of Thornhill had expressly asked for greater visibility of police on their estate.
- Police claim to have dismantled 12 networks of traffickers so far this year. Times, Sunday Times