Sentence examples for bobby is from inspiring English sources

"In England, would you know what a bobby is?" — one.

"In England, would you know what a bobby is?"—one.

THE Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as London's top bobby is grandly known, has a beat that goes beyond the capital.

No longer a baton-swinging keeper of the peace; the local bobby is an indistinct figure behind a retreating riot shield or an inept detective in a high-vis jacket.

"Bobby is the greatest, though.

His son, Bobby, is Pitino's freshman manager.

The bobby was playing it straight.

When our "road" began at Saltdean in August, the nearest bobby was a mile away checking for saucy behaviour at the Lido.

Claris had always believed that the British bobby was the best in the world and if there was any trouble the police would sort it out.

Fans of the TV drama Heartbeat may yearn for the days of 1960s-style policing when a local village bobby was a key figure in rural daily life.

Betty's younger sister, Barbara Harriet "Bobby", was born October 25, 1909, at 55 Ward Street in Somerville, Massachusetts, by which time their father was a patent attorney.