(of an area) not guarded or watched.
for years the border was unpatrolled
Example sentencesExamples
- Liquor, brought by whiskey traders, rolled across the border, through several unpatrolled gaps.
- Mr Holden said the greatest dangers were when people swam outside patrolled hours or on unpatrolled beaches.
- The beaches are a bit quieter than the main ones but they are also unpatrolled.
- The 'withdrawal' into fortified positions also left the large unpatrolled countryside free to armed bandits who were there just to loot.
- They have paid for officers and yet their areas go unpatrolled.
- Young men under 21 - some guilty of violent crimes - can be assigned to a facility where most of them sleep in large dormitories which are essentially unpatrolled at night.
- Maybe they'll duck under the ropes up top and enter an unpatrolled backcountry area on the far side of the mountain known as Canyon Creek.
- Today the streets of our town have gone mostly unpatrolled.
- The settlement is nestled between population centers, where unpatrolled rural roads lend themselves to secrecy.
- By yesterday morning the army had moved more than half a mile north into a no-man's-land that had been unpatrolled since the rebels called a cease-fire 10 days ago after routing the army.