policewoman

Examples

The youths scuffled with the policeman, then escaped down the lane.
The policeman walked along the street, shining a torch into every car.警察沿着街走，拿手电筒把每辆车都照了一遍。
The traffic lights were out of order, but there was a policeman directing the traffic.
"And where do you think you're going?" demanded the policeman.
He said that two policemen assaulted him while he was in custody.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who work for the police service
beadle
bobby
cadet
chief constable
constable
family liaison officer
fed
FLO
G-man
Garda
outrider
patrolman
pig
police
police constable
police officer
policewoman
superintendent
Supt
WPC

Examples from literature

Duke (on the left) was the sheriff, or head policeman, of Honolulu. 

Examples of policeman

policeman
The little boy is speaking to a policeman.
Its main line was that administrative personnel in the police forces had to be cut down, to make way for more policemen and police officers.
No longer was the state responsible for policing the health of society: everyone was to be his or her own policeman.
In another incident, a policeman who tried to stop a confrontation between warring factions was knocked unconscious when both groups turned on him.
Two other tourists and two policemen who tried to intervene were also injured.
Is a man in uniform a policeman or a guest at a fancy dress party?
Few commoners were in commercial trade and all those in public service, as well as the bailiff, policeman, schoolteacher and vicar, resided in the village.
Thus, he runs the risk of being perceived as "moral policeman" within the unit, and its "lackey" outside it.
You can send a policeman out and arrest a man for being on the farm against all the rules.
However, one does not have to be a preacher or a policeman, even if such a choice is open to one.
There are drunks too; one is being escorted out of the painting by two policemen; another few lean tipsily against a building.
In 1898 strikes among various sections of mill operatives against plague regulations were also marked by incidents of encounters between workers and armed policemen.
Of these, 11 were army officers, 10 were policemen and one was an enlisted man.
Local security is maintained through voluntary patrols by party members; these patrols occur three times a day, with one policeman also stationed in the community.
He not only sought to discipline burghers and students but also aspired to become a policeman of knowledge.
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