patrol

[ US /pəˈtɹoʊɫ/ ]
[ UK /pɐtɹˈə‍ʊl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a detachment used for security or reconnaissance
  2. a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security
  3. the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes
VERB
  1. maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol
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How To Use patrol In A Sentence

  • It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
  • He also knew a great deal about history, which he used in his "Time Patrol" stories—the one here has a title casually truncated from Cato, "Delenda Est" the missing Latin word is "Carthago". Attack of the Classics
  • During the next patrol, at about 10 p.m., however, our men found fresh footprints on the wet ground.
  • Only later did it become apparent that the flight had also been on anti-piracy patrol.
  • A neighbourhood patrol can thus assume the proportions of an armed convoy.
  • From his driveway, Benelli dispatches patrol cars and sends officers to new assignments.
  • In the wild there is no piste patrol to pick up the pieces, and the mountains bristle with rocks, cliffs and cornices.
  • Each patrol day ends with uniforms soaked in sweat, and the soil of the deadland is powder under the hoofs of the patrol mounts, rising and infiltrating boots and uniforms, and leaving every lancer's skin dry and itchy from salt and sweat and dust. The Magi'i Of Cyador
  • While awaiting maintenance arrival, Airmen Green and Helton continued patrolling the area to verify that all aircraft were chocked.
  • Each patrol is also given a first-aid kit, a global positioning system compass, an astrocompass and a shortwave radio.
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