patrol car

Example Sentences

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According to state news agency TASS, the targeted patrol car was heavily damaged but did not catch fire.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Then Vescovi got off the phone and walked to his patrol car.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

After several failed attempts to deflate it, the officers finally managed to squash it into the back of a patrol car.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

A reporter at the scene observed a teenager getting into a police patrol car.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

Mrs. Franklin must not have called the police to report me, though I jumped at every sound and spent hours peeking out the windows, waiting for a patrol car to arrive.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson