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Synonyms for patrol
pəˈtroʊlpa·trol

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Princeton's WordNet3.5 / 6 votes

  1. patrolnoun

    a detachment used for security or reconnaissance

  2. patrolnoun

    the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes

  3. patrolverb

    a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security

  4. patrol, policeverb

    maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

    Synonyms:
    police

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  1. List of paraphrases for "patrol":

    patrolling, patrols, periodic, squad, rotating, periodical, gunboat, beat

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#1262police
#2851beat
#6839squad
#7935periodic
#8313patrol
#12124rotating
#18052periodical
#28551patrols
#42092patrolling
#97430gunboat

How to use patrol in a sentence?

  1. The Navy:

    Submariners who die go on eternal patrol.

  2. Brandon Judd:

    Border Patrol officials's the largest I've ever heard of.

  3. Mae Ngai:

    It was not humane, it was a military style of operation, [Eisenhower] sent hundreds of border patrol officers to sweep up people.

  4. Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole:

    We had two-thirds of our road patrol tied up on this fiasco.

  5. Mark Lamb:

    We're doing the best we can, we work with Border Patrol, we use our aviation in conjunction with Border Patrol, we have an anti-smuggling unit that's actively out looking in the desert, we have drug units that go out and go out to the drug dealers and the people that are pushing the fentanyl pills and the methamphetamines and the marijuana.


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