Example Sentences
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I drove to my job at a middle school, where more legal observers patrolled outside.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Troops patrolled Tell, moving between different parts of the village, while residents offered condolences to the families of the four men killed, AFP journalists reported.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
The streets and highways are not heavily patrolled by military or federal forces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Individuals who lived, fed, groomed and patrolled together for years became targets of lethal attacks on the basis of their new group membership,” the authors reported recently in the journal Science.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
As I patrolled through the forest, my movie-saturated imagination began to run wild.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
