paddy wagon
Example Sentences
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“You don’t want to come in right away loading people into the paddy wagon … You have to balance these two interests as closely as you can.”
From Washington Post • May 10, 2022
At 2 a.m., they brought them to the paddy wagon that would take them to the temporary detention facility.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022
One day, “just as I was being put in the paddy wagon, I saw all the reporters around her,” Burwell recalled.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2021
The Associated Press reported that Fonda was taken away in a paddy wagon.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019
In a last-ditch effort, he managed to load the camera before the paddy wagon drove off.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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