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patrolman

[puh-trohl-muhn] / pəˈtroʊl mən /


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Eventually captured by Hungarian patrolmen and executed by a firing squad, Senesh might have been one more name on the endless ledger of Holocaust victims.

From The Wall Street Journal

County Sheriff’s Department have done the heavy lifting – keeping control with helicopters, hundreds of patrolmen on foot and hundreds of patrol cars.

From Salon

“They didn’t care about me or my daughter or those poor highway patrolmen. They ruined their lives. They were after Frank,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

Asked how he’d like to be remembered, Wambaugh summed it up with the no-nonsense crispness of a patrolman handing out a speeding ticket.

From Los Angeles Times

They heard how the highway patrolman told Ms. Hamer, “We are going to make you wish you was dead.”

From Salon