police force
Americannoun
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police forces
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of police force
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Manhunters were created by the galaxy as part of a police force, and then they went rogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
PC Blades taught English at Carmel College in Darlington before joining the police force.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Any citizen who steps out of line risks the ire of an even dumber police force, riding around in cruisers that lift their design language from Ed Hardy clothing.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
A police force is being given an extra £2m after a spate of crimes followed the death of two police officers and five men in a head-on crash, the home secretary has announced.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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