patrol wagon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
When the patrol wagon arrived at Central Booking, officers found Ott sleeping and had difficulty waking him, police said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2018
He was handcuffed in the patrol wagon to a lesbian and he got her a lawyer – he wouldn’t let her pay for the lawyer.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2015
All night long, more & more strikers, picked up in their homes and on the streets, were loaded into the patrol wagon and taken to jail.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then one spring afternoon in 1925, a detective calmly pushed past Mr. Stephenson's butler, found the Grand Dragon upstairs in a closet, took him away in a patrol wagon.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But we did ride in a patrol wagon, Mrs. Pangborn," answered Dorothy, trying hard to keep Viola's tearful face before her mind, to guide her in her statements.
From Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School by Margaret Penrose
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
