paddy wagon

Example Sentences

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“In the paddy wagon, I told everyone the number for the Colorado Freedom Fund. I said, ‘Hey guys, repeat this number until you get to a phone.’”

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2020

The Associated Press reported that Fonda was taken away in a paddy wagon.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019

“I stepped out of the paddy wagon and held my fist up,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2019

“A red car or, every so often, a paddy wagon would come around and we’d clear out. But it was like using a flyswatter on a swarm of bees,” Weiss said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018

And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, “Take 'em off” and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, “We Shall Overcome.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry