Explore Cop through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bull or collar. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Cop in a sentence
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Cop meaning
- to capture or arrest someone
- To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
Synonyms of Cop
Using Cop
- The main meaning on this page is: to capture or arrest someone | To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take. | To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.
- Useful related words include: bull, collar, steal, glom.
- In the example corpus, cop often appears in combinations such as: the cop, cop city, good cop.
Context around Cop
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cop
- In this selection, "cop" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, good, bad, canton, bad, show and players stand out and add context to how "cop" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the good cop bad cop and 3 good cop bad cop. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cop" sits close to words such as panels, dramatically and punch, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cop
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All day, Marjorie switches hats: good cop, bad cop, kindergarten teacher. (11 words)
Infamous for playing the good cop, bad cop game at Guantanamo with detainees. (13 words)
Sometimes a cop show is just a cop show -- no matter where it comes from. (15 words)
He doesn’t seem or want to remember that black people immediately go on a mad rampage to riot, loot & burn every time a black person gets killed by a cop & doesn’t matter to them if cop was right or wrong. (42 words)
The Church of Pentecost (CoP) in collaboration with the Pentecost University College (PUC) have launched CoP Chairman Education Foundation to support needy students to meet the financial demands that come with tertiary education at PUC. (35 words)
At most, a cop will intimidate a suspect using the “Good Cop, Bad Cop” technique but they typically won’t resort to using physical violence or blackmail for the sake of getting a confession. (34 words)
Recently, they’ve been playing the “Bad Cop” to China’s “Good Cop” in Venezuela, which we can’t ignore – nor forget! (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
Good Cop Bad Cop Players: (3) good cop, bad cop, the criminal How to play: The game begins with the criminal leaving the room - before any of the callouts are taken.
At most, a cop will intimidate a suspect using the “Good Cop, Bad Cop” technique but they typically won’t resort to using physical violence or blackmail for the sake of getting a confession.
But now, at age 72, the greed-crazed crooked cop Giulino has found a district-court judge who decreed that the kleptomaniac cop should get his bloated state pension back.
Infamous for playing the good cop, bad cop game at Guantanamo with detainees.
Recently, they’ve been playing the “Bad Cop” to China’s “Good Cop” in Venezuela, which we can’t ignore – nor forget!
Since horror films commonly utilize the police, there can be more variety than the sacrificial Black guy, the useless cop, and the heroic cop where systemic abuse is ignored.
Sometimes a cop show is just a cop show -- no matter where it comes from.
The show is being executive produced by Hall and longtime manager Jonathan Wolfson for their Good Cop Bad Cop Productions.
This helps the song break the good-cop-bad-cop vocal structure, as Holt flexes more of his evolving rhythmic patterns and bottom-heavy beatdowns.
Beverly Hills Cop follows Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, as he investigates his friend’s murder in the upscale world of Beverly Hills, clashing with its posh police department along the way.
On the Canton cop unemployment line Carnes joins Trooper Proctor and Proctor’s fellow drunkard, suspended-with-pay Canton cop Kevin “Fat” Albert.
He doesn’t seem or want to remember that black people immediately go on a mad rampage to riot, loot & burn every time a black person gets killed by a cop & doesn’t matter to them if cop was right or wrong.
I'm not a cop so I have to wonder what kind of discretion a cop has in arresting someone when they're called, be it for a child or adult.
There was a cop I know doing a detail(I guess to make sure no one wanted to show their ass) and the cop was not wearing a mask.
Togbah on behalf of COP in Liberia appreciated the United State of America COP Chapter for its contribution in buying the anti-coronavirus material.
All day, Marjorie switches hats: good cop, bad cop, kindergarten teacher.
Andre is known in the cop community for being the cop that takes out the worst killers running the streets — and that reputation is exactly what gets him dragged into a bloody new case.
Kilmer gets out of the car, and hands the cop a fake ID, and the cop *lets him go* because the fake ID says he is someone else.
Over the last few years the department also has begun hosting events such as coffee with a cop or cones with a cop.
The Church of Pentecost (CoP) in collaboration with the Pentecost University College (PUC) have launched CoP Chairman Education Foundation to support needy students to meet the financial demands that come with tertiary education at PUC.
Common combinations with cop
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the cop 32×
- cop city 17×
- good cop 14×
- bad cop 13×
- cop in 13×
- cop and 13×
- cop bad 11×
- of cop 8×
- cop is 8×
- cop was 5×