Example Sentences

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In 2020, for instance, the New York Police Department disbanded the aggressive squads known as “anti-crime units” that had patrolled the city, often in plainclothes.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023

Hollingsworth was sober, not wearing a seatbelt and was a state police driving instructor traveling an interstate he had patrolled for decades.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2022

Deputies from the Sheriff’s Homeless Outreach Services Team, who had patrolled the boardwalk earlier in June, stayed away as the outreach began.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2021

Specialist teams with sniffer dogs had patrolled the procession route searching for explosives, while helicopters buzzed overhead as part of the operation to protect Prince William and his new wife Kate Middleton.

From Reuters • Apr. 29, 2011

We were guarded by the same young women who had patrolled the corridors at Scheveningen.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom