Example sentences for: patrol

How can you use “patrol” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the folk dramas of El Teatro Campesino (the Farmworkers’ Theater), la migra was often characterized as an unscrupulous arrogant patrol officer who accepted bribes from the growers and ordered raids in the agricultural fields to arrest undocumented immigrants the day before payday.

  • Eight probes were conducted in the past year to sniff out smugglers who likely used their access to conveniently located military bases to avoid Mexican Border Patrol.

  • La migra is an abbreviated and slang term for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Border Patrol.

  • Tribes have, on occasion, opted for a blurring of boundaries (asking that state cops patrol reservation land, for example).

  • I, like you, was attending his execution as a witness, not for my former employer, the Florida Highway Patrol, but to complete a cycle.


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