police station

noun

: the headquarters of the police for a locality

Examples of police station in a Sentence

They brought him down to the police station for questioning.

Recent Examples on the Web

He was taken to a police station and questioned for most of the day before being released without charge. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2026

Protesters went on to torch police stations across the country, overrun national security headquarters in multiple governorates, storm torture chambers, and unearth archives of horror and abuse. — Abdelrahman Elgendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

Near La Guajira’s border with Venezuela, the only police station for miles is a one-story, half-finished building in Castilletes, a few hundred meters from the frontier. — Nathan Jaccard, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026

Images circulated globally of Mountbatten-Windsor hiding in a car on the way back from the police station. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for police station

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration