patrol wagon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Luck In Des Moines, Iowa, Police Sergeant Dunagan, riding in a patrol wagon with a slot machine just seized in a raid, was surprised to see two nickels drop out.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the post-office inspector we climbed into a patrol wagon with a detail of police who were to make a general round-up of the places on Forty-second Street.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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