“They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.
Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.
Lewis and the men he was with were given a goat and chicken that they were expected to kill and eat while on patrol.
On Southland, McKenzie played Ben Sherman, a patrol officer on the mean streets of Los Angeles.
But uniformed guards do not patrol the halls of even the highest-risk units.
Scarcely a night went by without its patrol or ambulance case.
The men in the canoe were surely keen of eye, and they must be a patrol.
I set off with all speed, and when I arrived there was a Prussian patrol at the cottage.
Possibly, after all, the man was merely a patrol from some outlying station.
I'll tell you what you might do, Chance: you might patrol the roads on the edge of town.
1660s, "action of going the rounds" (of a military camp, etc.), from French patrouille "a night watch" (1530s), from patrouiller "go the rounds to watch or guard," originally "tramp through the mud," probably soldiers' slang, from Old French patouiller "paddle in water," probably from pate "paw, foot" (see patten). Compare paddlefoot, World War II U.S. Army slang for "infantry soldier." Meaning "those who go on a patrol" is from 1660s. Sense of "detachment of soldiers sent out to scout the countryside, the enemy, etc." is attested from 1702.
1690s, from patrol (n.) and in part from French patrouiller. Related: Patrolled; patrolling.
