patrolman
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Movie people were stranded on Lookout Mountain, and in Malibu, where a highway patrolman managed to ferry milk to director Frank Capra’s children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Are you allowed to go into that?” she asked a patrolman.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The ad then shows the patrolman approaching the vehicle: “Miss, I’m going to need you to step out of the vehicle,” he says, tapping the kit on the driver’s side door, “take a pregnancy test.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
Philip, then a New York City patrolman, kept close watch over his boys as they grew.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
“I can get a thousand dollars over by the Homestead,” Mrs. Reilly told the silent patrolman quietly.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Chava Cartas directs this crime drama based on Héctor de Mauleón’s account, focusing on the decisions faced by the patrolmen when threatened by the criminal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The patrolmen are equipped with rifles and handguns, to be used as a last resort against angry polar bears and musk ox.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
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 ● Jun. 12, 2025
Two California Highway patrolmen stood about 20 feet away, talking to each other as traffic crawled along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
At each bridge crossing in Manhattan County, police cars stood watch; the Westchester County police had stationed individual patrolmen at intervals en route to the cemetery.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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