Synonym: guard, police, protect, watch. Similar words: patron, patriarchy, control, out of control, control group, under control, beyond control, pat. Meaning: [pə'trəʊl] n. 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. v. maintain the security of by carrying out a control.
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121. Despite the protection of the reef, there was sufficient sea running to make the patrol boat roll through sixty degrees.
122. A simple system of flag warnings is backed up by volunteers with loudspeakers who will patrol the shore areas.
123. Above, our full combat air patrol was on the alert.
124. The evening's entertainment concluded with yobbos trying to evade the patrol of hefty stewards to get to the pitch.
125. It's not known if the patrol which spotted the stolen car was part of this operation.
126. A police patrol car also became a casualty after officers attempted to help stranded motorists.
127. The campaign came in response to a spate of fatal stabbings and involved extra police officers being drafted in to patrol late-night trouble spots.
128. The patrol drove in a widely scattered formation in case Stukas arrived from the north.
129. At night, we would go on ambush patrol or sit in a foxhole or listening post.
130. Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat.
131. By the end of the first day the patrol had manoeuvred its way across the narrow neck of the Calanscio Sand Sea.
132. Only later did it become apparent that the flight had also been on anti-piracy patrol.
133. The patrol sat motionless for three minutes until the chaos eased.
134. A patrol in the city centre was crossing a road when a small explosion occurred near a fence-post.
135. From here I watch a patrol of pelicans skim the ocean surface while waves crash against the rocks.
136. We can tell Mr Goodwin to patrol the grounds in case he is dumped, tied up, or something like that.
137. One patrol car crashed during the pursuit, injuring two officers, but the police say it's incredible no one was killed.
138. The patrol plane has an infrared capability, so that searches can be made in the dark.
139. Border Patrol officials say the tactic discourages illegal border crossings.
140. Anglos traveling with Latinos are also targets of Border Patrol probes, says Castillo.
141. This was his fourth patrol of the day and only his first kill of the week.
142. Patrol cars cruised the intersection looking for a naked lady, but never stopped at the gas station.
143. Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.
144. There will already be a couple of chaps in a patrol car down a side street as a matter of course.
145. Mayor Brown exhorted the Mission police station to patrol the park every day. Sentencedict.com
146. A policeman on patrol discovered the bodies at a remote beauty spot near Charterhouse, Somerset.
147. The Royal Hong Kong Police share patrol duties with the army, and they are equipped to detect an invasion.
148. Instead they took the kids away in the patrol car and told me to wait.
149. Since the federal government began pouring money and manpower into the Border Patrol here, experience also has become an issue.
150. The Pentagon ordered up cruise missile attacks from two of the six cruise-missile equipped warships on patrol in the Persian Gulf.
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