patrol

[pəˈtroʊl]

Definition:
1. A detachment used for security or reconnaissance.
2. The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.
3. A group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security.
4. Maintain the security of by carrying out a control.

Use 'patrol' in a sentence:

1. He saw the flashing lights of the highway patrol car in his driving mirror.
2. Guards patrol the perimeter of the estate.
3. He hurried through the rain, to the patrol car.
4. They also want the INS to hire hundreds more border patrol agents and investigators to keep illegal immigrants out and to track them down once they're here.
5. They go out on patrol, and they get shot at or attacked almost every day.
6. Police patrol the streets.
7. "You learn how to use your systems on patrol," he said.
8. Security forces remained on patrol until late into the night.
9. The army is now on patrol in Srinagar and a curfew has been imposed.
10. The Florida Highway Patrol shut down the 20-mile stretch of the interstate.
11. I think it's the thin end of the wedge when you have armed police permanently on patrol round a city.
12. The men apparently opened fire after they were challenged by a patrol.
13. It is expected to approve proposals to send patrol boats manned by armed police and customs officers with powers to search and turn back ships suspected of breaking the sanctions.
14. A hand grenade was thrown at an army patrol.
15. In Tobruk, leading a patrol in no-man's land, he was blown up by a mortar bomb.
16. We had a patrol out on the border, breaking in some young soldiers, showing them the ropes.
17. Guerrillas attacked a patrol with hand grenades.
18. These troops have rarely been at the center of the action: in Afghanistan, they stay in the relatively calm north; in Lebanon, they patrol at sea, not on land.
19. The police do not patrol the area.
20. There were patrol cars on the streets and riot police standing by in reserve.
21. The Highway Patrol this year issued 1,018 speeding citations.
22. Police patrol at night to guard the town.
23. Some of the officers have been pulled off patrol duty to teach guitar, piano classes, and English.
24. The team police get to know the people in their patrol areas better than cops who must cover a larger beat.
25. The second day he ran into a patrol of British soldiers who eyed him and his wagon with suspicion.
26. They'll probably scrape the paint off and make it look like a regular patrol car.
27. On December 31, a bomber in Baqouba detonated her suicide vest close to a police patrol, wounding five policemen and four civilians.
28. Two officers on patrol became suspicious of two men in a car.
29. Two policemen were killed when gunmen opened fire on their patrol vehicle.
30. A police patrol car was parked in the forecourt of the petrol station.
31. Guards can be seen patrolling everywhere.
32. The patrol car approached, its siren screaming.
33. The patrol can detect if something is going down or is about to go down.
34. He began to waver in his resolution when a patrol wagon rolled up and more officers dismounted.
35. Gangs of youths patrol the streets at night.
36. Prison officers continued to patrol the grounds within the jail.
37. The bomb went off as a police patrol went by.
38. The biggest man in the patrol, a giant of a man, lifted Mattie on to his shoulders.
39. Troops patrolled the border day and night.
40. There is a chronic shortage of patrol cars in this police district.
41. Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
42. Two guards with sidearms patrolled the wall.
43. He failed to return from a patrol.
44. Highway patrol officers closed the road.
45. I ask the mounted patrol to keep their eyes open.
46. Troops would patrol major roads to ensure that traffic flows freely throughout the country.
47. The patrol came under attack from all sides.
48. Security guards make regular patrols at night.