Example sentences for: patrol

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

  • The larger bill would fortify the Border Patrol, facilitate deportations, and restrict the benefits available to illegal aliens; the detached bill would let states exclude children of illegal aliens from public schools.

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

  • Congress, with the support of the Clinton administration, doubled the number of Border Patrol agents required along the border with Mexico to one agent every quarter mile by 1999.

  • Unable or unwilling to court the old vassal Malay States or the orang laut pirates to patrol the seas, the new rulers forfeited their predecessors’ commercial monopoly in the Melaka Straits and, with it, command of the Moluccas spice trade.

  • These sharks patrol the waters looking for juicy tidbits to grow fat on.


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