Below you will find example sentences with "police investigate". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Police Investigate in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: investigate
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 23.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "police investigate" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 23.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as area as police investigate, as peel police investigate the shooting, shooting, avenue and scene stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with metropolitan police, delhi police, police officers and investigate claims, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with police investigate
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Montreal police investigate a fire. (5 words)
Delta Police investigate a shooting on Dec. 14, 2023. (9 words)
Roads are closed in the area as police investigate. (9 words)
As police investigate and the community rallies around her family, Nasrin now looks to her six-year-old daughter, Shaikha, to whom she has to explain why she'll never again be able to eat her father's food, hear his voice or see his smile. (46 words)
Friends of a Brampton man who was shot multiple times earlier this month are searching for answers and appealing for the community’s help, as Peel police investigate the shooting that may be a case of mistaken identity. (38 words)
Police investigate the scene on the Dan Ryan Expressway at 43rd Street where a car ended up after a hit-and-run outside Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
No firearm was recovered from the vehicle, police said, and Waukegan Police Chief Wayne Walles has requested that Illinois State Police investigate the shooting.
Police vehicles surround Caffè Strada as police investigate the theft of a laptop computer Tuesday.
As police investigate and the community rallies around her family, Nasrin now looks to her six-year-old daughter, Shaikha, to whom she has to explain why she'll never again be able to eat her father's food, hear his voice or see his smile.
A vehicle has been seized in Southampton as police investigate a hit-and-run incident that killed a pig in the New Forest.
Boston University Hillel is the latest local Jewish building to get vandalized amid the Israel-Hamas war, as police investigate who wrote “Free Palestine” on a BU Hillel window this week.
Delta Police investigate a shooting on Dec. 14, 2023.
Oakland police investigate a multiple shooting and homicide at the Valero gas station on Seminary Avenue at MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Jan.
Police investigate the scene on the Dan Ryan Expressway at 43rd Street where a car ended up after a hit-and-run outside Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.
Roads are closed in the area as police investigate.
The case may also raise wider questions about the way police investigate indecent exposure.
Westbound Finch Avenue is closed from Warden Avenue while police investigate and there are delays in the area.
Calgary police investigate a deadly stabbing in Forest Lawn that killed a teen June 6. A 17-year-old was charged with first-degree murder Saturday.
Chicago police investigate in the 1100 block of South Francisco Avenue, where authorities said a 23-year-old man was found on the street with multiple gunshot wounds early Wednesday in North Lawndale.
Friends of a Brampton man who was shot multiple times earlier this month are searching for answers and appealing for the community’s help, as Peel police investigate the shooting that may be a case of mistaken identity.
Israeli police investigate the crime scene after a gunman kills two people and injures several others at a bus stop near Kiryat Malachi, Israel on Feb. 16, 2024.
Long Beach police investigate the scene of a shooting near First Street and Pine Avenue in downtown Long Beach on Friday night, March 15. No injuries were reported.
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police investigate the deaths of four people in Harrow, Ont., on June 21, 2024.
Montreal police investigate a fire.
North Las Vegas Police investigate the scene of Monday night's shooting at an apartment complex in North Las Vegas, Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
Police investigate a home in Farmington, Conn., where Fotis Dulos was found unresponsive on Jan.