patrol
verb (used without object)
(of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
well-patrolled
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a word derived from
patrol.
Example Sentences
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But the streets around the courthouse on Monday were chaos-free — well-patrolled and relatively quiet.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
In the end, however, you’re going to need to take out a few robots to get to a well-patrolled fragment.
From Forbes ● Aug. 27, 2013
They are not tucked away in the middle of a well-patrolled wilderness, like their U.S. predecessors at Hanford, Wash, or the reactors that the Russians are presumably building in Siberia.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the morning of May 27th he started over his well-patrolled course of eight hundred miles, and, after a little less than ten hours of flight, brought his machine into the harbor before Lisbon, Portugal.
From Opportunities in Aviation by Arthur Sweetser
