Example Sentences

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“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

Darkened store fronts outnumbered open ones, and orange-vested volunteers wearing whistles patrolled the sidewalks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Trenches and fences will compose the barrier, patrolled by military personnel.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

There were security checkpoints and police patrolled the streets in numbers that appeared larger than during last year's 12-day war.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

Cut off from the rest of the hospital, the unit was patrolled by security guards.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield