policeman

Dressed in a shabby old coat and chic beret—“a look halfway between woman of mystery and lobster fisher”—Nora aims to thwart a dangerous psychopath while protecting the policeman with whom she’s increasingly smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

She has also become friends with Detective Inspector Rideout, a local policeman with rumpled movie-star looks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

After a rough start, including a run-in with an irritating policeman, she lands at the home of a baker, Osono, who gives her a place to stay in exchange for labor and her delivery services.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

"When I stopped, a policeman came to my car door. I wound down the window, and he told me to open my car, so I did."

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

“What are you doing out here?” the sopping-wet policeman shouted through the driver’s window of John’s truck.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Pictures from the protest show policemen holding shields trying to stop the students as they marched towards the Hotel Indonesia roundabout, a Jakarta landmark.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

From early childhood he was taught to identify and steer clear of FBI, CIA and plainclothes policemen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

As a result, more than 75,000 policemen, soldiers and private security officers were activated for the opening ceremony, and camouflaged soldiers carrying assault rifles became a common sight outside venues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

Firefighters used an excavator to remove broken glass and gnarled metal strewn across the site as policemen with pump-action rifles patrolled on motorbike to prevent looting.

From Barron's ● Jan. 4, 2026

Their father, too, seemed uneasy around policemen; whenever a cop car was behind them in traffic, he kept looking at the rearview mirror and insisting on silence in the car so he could think.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez