Example Sentences

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For nearly six hours, nobody checked his condition, including five Los Angeles Police Department officers who had been patrolling the platform.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024

The police had been patrolling the beach and tried to stop them but most ignored the armed officers and started climbing onto the inflatable.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024

Since2015, the organization had been patrolling this region—and making local fishers increasingly angry.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2022

Deputy Environment and Energy Minister Giorgos Amyras said the cetacean was located by a coast guard vessel that had been patrolling the area.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Kennedy and his crew had been patrolling passages in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific, one of many World War II battlegrounds between the United States and Japan.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin