(v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
(v.) t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.
(v. i.) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
(v. i.) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
(v. i.) The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
(v. i.) Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
(2) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(3) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(4) When it comes to patrols, operations and so forth, we are first."
(5) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
(6) Maybe this will be increasing the frequency of patrols, or going to places that the Obama administration has been hesitant to go – such as actually undertaking a non-innocent passage military patrols within 12 miles of an artificial island.
(7) Ronald Johnson, the Missouri highway patrol captain drafted by the governor to take over security in the town and calm the situation down, blamed “premeditated criminal acts”.
(8) An investigation is under way to find out what caused the explosion that wrecked the Warrior vehicle as it patrolled the border of Helmand and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
(9) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
(10) Hollington was named an hour after the MoD announced the death of another marine, killed in an explosion in Sangin yesterday while on a "reassurance patrol".
(11) China's air force spokesman Shen Jinke says several fighter jets and an early warning aircraft were sent on normal air patrols in the zone on Thursday.
(12) Marouane Fellaini was moved further forwards with Rooney shifting to the right and Rashford patrolling the left.
(13) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
(14) The company was alleged to have provided the Nigerian army with vehicles, patrol boats and ammunition, and to have helped plan raids and terror campaigns against villages.
(15) There’s a real concern that a lot of that will come from Border Patrol,” Huffman said.
(16) Watching Sergeant Wright's patrol in Lashkar Gah was Ghulam Rasul, who has lost count of how old he is.
(17) The US navy regularly patrols the Asia-Pacific region, conducting joint exercises with its allies and training in the strategic region.
(18) They tried first to enter it in their patrol car from the south side, the side where Alex’s parents lived, then turned around and drove in from the north side, going around the barrier that keeps vehicles out and heading up the road that is often full of runners, walkers and dogs at that time of day.
(19) However, commenting on the resurgence of police clashes with protesters, Captain Ron Johnson, of the Missouri highway patrol, which was handed responsibility for policing the protests on Thursday, admitted he was worried that the release of the information would cause renewed tensions.
(20) The Ministry of Defence extracted a statement from Isaf forces that Gurganus approved the current level of patrols, implying there is no change in the British approach.
Perambulate
Definition:
(v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
(v. i.) To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.
Example Sentences:
(1) I seem to see Madonna Grimes drifting vacantly from job to job, a perambulating pain in the neck wherever she works.
(2) A brief account is given of a person, small in stature, with retarded development, who, following the breakdown of marital intimacy and the failure of his efforts to adopt a child, found sexual satisfaction by defecating in unoccupied perambulators and subsequently inflicting damage on them.
(3) The Steinway's perambulations are a symbol of that cumbrous, precious heritage of images and ideas that the refugees from Hitler carried into exile.
(4) Taking our afternoon perambulations, Sir Henry and I encountered the local naturalist John Stapleton out on the moor with his sister.
(5) Dancers will negotiate the slippery limestone rocks, disappearing into underground passageways and then popping up later in front of the perambulating audience; a choir's singing will rise as if from the centre of the earth.
(6) The abdominal symptoms develop latently and surgery prevalently ensues during the stage of intestinal wall necrosis or perambulating peritonitis.