Patrols is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PATROLS in dictionary:

VERB:
• PATROL, to guard by moving and watching
• keep watch over (an area) by regularly walking or travelling around it
NOUN:
• an expedition to keep watch over an area, especially by guards or police walking or driving around at regular intervals
• a person or group of people sent to keep watch over an area
• the action of keeping watch over an area
• a routine operational voyage of a ship or aircraft
• an official who controls traffic where children cross the road
• a unit of six to eight Scouts or Guides forming part of a troop
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pass through an area for the purposes of observation or security

Words related to PATROLS

patrol8 patrolled12 patrolling13

How to use PATROLS in a sentence

• The whole railway line was guarded by patrols, many of whom were in civilian attire.
• Combat patrols on the flanks are specially important.
• The commander determines the number and strength of patrols and when they are to be sent out.
• Patrols should not travel on the main roads if they can observe them and at the same time make the necessary progress by moving some distance to the side of the roads.
• Patrols nearing their own lines should march at a walk unless pressed by the enemy.
• By sending out a succession of small patrols in this manner the flanks are protected.
• Patrols fire only in self-defense or to give the alarm.
• Officers of the guard will remain constantly with their guards, except while visiting patrols or necessarily engaged elsewhere in the performance of their duties.
• The arbitrary and vexatious powers with which the patrols are necessarily armed, would be intolerable in a free country.
• Mounted patrols also traverse the town in every direction, and persons returning alone from the theatre or from a party, often engage their services to conduct them home.
• Her dwelling was searched and watched, and that brought the patrols so near me that I was obliged to keep very close in my den.
• Meanwhile the army collected at Tupani knew nothing of the Prince, and, with the early dawn, patrols were sent off in every direction to beat up the country in search of him.
• Between the American camp and the British outpost were many pickets and patrols.
• Now a sentinel fired, the bugles sounded for the horse patrols to come in, and the whole force was quickly got ready for the coming enemy.
• Great merriment followed, in which pickets, patrols, and the officer of the day were made the butt of the ridicule of the whole force.
• Heads of houses, as mounted patrols, walked their horses round those poor cottages.
• The patrols were kept busy until the twentieth of January, when the Chileans marched triumphantly into Lima.
• Patrols are used to provide the necessary security against surprise.
• However, patrols should frequently be pushed well to the front unless the ground in that direction is exceptionally open.
• He would, if necessary, issue the necessary orders to protect the front and flanks by sending out patrols.
• Immediately strong patrols crossed the canal and pushed up the slope on the other side, in order to remain in contact with the enemy and gauge his whereabouts.
• Patrols were sent forward, and it was ascertained that the country to our immediate front was clear of the enemy.
• The bank here was well guarded by patrols, between whom a number of peaceful citizens sat a-fishing.
• He was glad to hear also that the troop was getting up a baseball game for the morrow, to be played by two teams chosen from all four patrols.
• Then they, too, were completed and notice of the results was eagerly awaited by the four patrols.
• On the following night his patrols reported that Dundee was clear, and Buller occupied the town and reached Newcastle on May 18.
• They were not discovered, as no patrols had been sent to watch the ground beneath, and the sentries on the crest gave no sign.
• So threatening have the people become, that the Sultan has doubled the patrols in Constantinople, and is taking great precautions to guard his own palace.
• These patrols were posted four men to every two hundred yards along the line through the forest, so that two men, patrolling in pairs, covered a hundred yards apiece.
• Again the patrols met at the plank above our heads, and again their departing footsteps rustled in the leaves.

Similar words containing PATROL without suffix s

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