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Meaning patrol meaning

What does patrol mean?

patrol

— noun a detachment used for security or reconnaissance — verb maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol — noun the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes — noun a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security

Synonyms patrol synonyms

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patrol English » English

guard watch watchman sentinel tour sentry police cruise scout round inspect watchdog spy protect patrolman patrolling going around escort beat watching warder ward wandering walk visitation vidette vedette squad sentry go searching scouting party scour rove rounds roaming reconnoitre reconnoiter ramble prowl policeman picket party overfly nightwatch make one’s rounds of make one’s rounds make a detour lookout looking around look out

Topics patrol topics

What do people use patrol to talk about?
Social behavior Government Government functions

Police

Conjugation patrol conjugation

How do you conjugate patrol?

patrol · verb

Examples patrol examples

How do I use patrol in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He ran away at the sight of a police patrol.
Soldiers go on patrol in a military vehicle.
How many patrol cars did you see?
Ten policemen were assigned to patrol that area.
We saw a patrol car running at full speed.
I was on patrol.
The patrol car skidded to a stop.
The police told Tom to sit in the back of the patrol car.
The patrol containers have been holed up.

Movie subtitles

Leebang said that more patrol men were recently hired..
A police patrol found him.
Hawkins and Jones, you'II patrol the river from Comado South, a distance of 20 miles.
Now, now, lassie, it was no fault of mine. I was coming home, sober as a judge, when, bang, without even a word of apology, a patrol got hold of me and pressed me into the army.
Sometimes the boys patrol the fences. - Especially on dance nights.
Ready? Mrs. Phoebe DeWolfe, colored, gave birth to a pickaninny in a patrol wagon with Hartwell's rifle squad acting as nurses.
So they coaxed her into the patrol wagon.
We run smack into a police patrol. Busted it in half.
We only have a skeleton force, the rest are on patrol.
Patrol car 41 waiting on High Bridge Road.
Have the ski patrol bring up another pair?
I guess they'll send out the ski patrol to look for us.
I guess the ski patrol must be lost.
What specific knowledge have you of the military plane patrol over the canal area?
Miss Campbell left with the first patrol this morning, Sir.
Yes. My patrol withdrew in good order.
What if we meet a patrol? We split up, and try our luck.
And I had to be away on patrol.
Yes, sir. - Mr. Randall, you'll take out the patrol.
The patrol's ready, Mr. Chambers.
I was taken prisoner while on patrol, sir. and held at Big Eagle's camp.
Sometimes the boys patrol the fences.
MAN: B-2 Patrol!
B Patrol reporting from Sector 7. No contact yet with enemy.
Patrol B-2.
A Turkish patrol.
How was patrol? Bad?
I crawled past him when I was on patrol.
Captain, a patrol from Targui is coming.
Yeah. So they coaxed her into the patrol wagon and started a race with the stork.
We run smack into a police patrol, busted it in half.
Patrol Leader Billings, all right, all right.
Patrol Leader Billings is going to write an article about you for our Rangers' gazette.
Stella, the lost patrol has returned, finally.
I may be what you regard as a chair warmer now but a few months ago, I was flying with my squadron on fighter patrol over the English Channel at 30,000 feet.
Coastal patrol to convoy commander.
With luck and no patrol boats, I'll be back in Sainte-Pierre at midnight.
Is it the patrol boat?

News and current affairs

ISLAMABAD - Early this month, tragedy struck Pakistan's polio eradication campaign once again with the killing of two more polio workers and a policeman on patrol with the vaccination teams.
Should we patrol remote African villages with groups of human rights activists?
That is the condition Nasrallah violated by ordering an attack on an Israeli patrol nowhere near the Sheba farms and launching rockets into Israeli territory.
The preeminent power does not have to patrol every boundary and project its strength everywhere.
That they had such interests until then was for centuries the essence of the relationship. Mrs Thatcher refused to allow that speech to be made before 1989 because nuclear submarines passed close to Northern Ireland to patrol the Atlantic approaches.
The US predictably responded that its aircraft carriers could and would patrol wherever necessary to promote freedom of navigation.
What makes matters worse is that the state authorities, particularly the police, patrol these slave operations to keep them running.
Supplying European countries as well ASEAN countries with JMSDF flying boats for sea rescue, patrol, and fire fighting will also now likely be approved.
We have already provided three new patrol vessels to Indonesia through grant aid cooperation and have decided to provide ten more to the Philippine Coast Guard.
Moreover, in January 2006, Korean Defense Minister Yoon agreed with the Philippines to deliver two used patrol boats.
Since 1990, the US Border Patrol has found 150 tunnels beneath the US-Mexico border.
The US employs more than 20,000 Border Patrol agents; but even if they were all on duty at the same time, each would need to guard a 1,700-foot section of the border.
In fact, the government inexplicably replaced regular army troops with border police in 2010 to patrol the mountain-ringed plateau into which the PLA has now intruded.
In recent months, China has launched a new war of attrition by sending patrol ships frequently to the waters around the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which China calls Diaoyu.
Mrs Thatcher refused to allow that speech to be made before 1989 because nuclear submarines passed close to Northern Ireland to patrol the Atlantic approaches.
Japan, facing mounting pressure from China, unconditionally released a Chinese trawler captain whose ship had rammed a Japanese naval patrol boat.
These vessels have lately been joined by an increasing number of Chinese surveillance forces, which periodically enter the waters surrounding the islands, sometimes leading to direct confrontation with Japanese patrol ships.

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