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单词 foot patrol
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Definition of foot patrol in English:

foot patrol

noun
  • 1An expedition to keep watch over an area by regularly walking around it, especially as conducted by soldiers or police.

    he was shot during a foot patrol
    mass noun police on foot patrol discovered a spate of car vandalisms in Kirkwall
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Foot patrols are conducted weekly along the entire perimetre, checking for any water seepage, or holes caused by natural erosion or rodents.
    • Garda cyclists will have greater mobility than officers on foot patrol.
    • During the nights at weekends, there are extra foot patrols in the city centre.
    • The agents who spotted the raft were on routine foot patrol.
    • More police officers will be deployed on foot patrols in the town centre shopping area.
    • Police are considering starting foot patrols on Washington Avenue.
    • The study was not able to indicate whether these attitudes led to or resulted from the officers' assignment to foot patrol.
    • The next couple of months involved going over to Liverpool a few times a week to do foot patrols or go out in a police car.
    • The rest of the crew (an infantry squad) were on foot patrol at the time.
    • Among them are a regular foot patrol in the city's downtown business area.
    1. 1.1 A group of people, especially soldiers or police, sent to keep watch over an area by regularly walking around it.
      the vehicle had been called to help a foot patrol caught in a series of ambushes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was shot in the leg when his foot patrol was ambushed.
      • The official charged with eradicating these highwaymen complained that foot patrols were unable to pursue the mounted outlaws.
      • Several rewrites in the past decade have omitted valuable scout know-how, such as tracking enemy foot patrols.
      • Instead of foot patrols, saffron-clad monks circumambulate the temples in the predawn light, armed only with prayer beads.
      • A helicopter clattered overhead while ill-equipped foot patrols trudged through the vast forest on a fruitless hunt for the intruders.
      • We have met councillors and recently deployed additional foot patrols in and around the village to reassure people.
      • The bomb, made from large artillery shells, went off near a foot patrol.
      • It is imperative to have a foot patrol, which is a very efficient way of controlling inconspicuous poaching activities.
      • An increase in police foot patrols has been requested.
      • The body was discovered after a large-scale search involving 40 police, including underwater teams, mounted officers, and foot patrols.
 
 
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