highway patrol
a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
a law-enforcement officer or group of officers assigned to patrol a highway.
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How to use highway patrol in a sentence
The Nevada trooper first told Stephen Lara the highway patrol was educating drivers “about violations they may not realize they’re committing,” and that he’d been pulled over for following a tanker truck too closely.
A former Marine was pulled over for following a truck too closely. Police took nearly $87,000 of his cash. | Matt Zapotosky | September 1, 2021 | Washington PostHundreds of cops saluting as the bodies were rolled out with a full escort by highway patrol.
Guard soldiers in Ferguson will work “under the overall command of the Missouri State highway patrol.”
Can the National Guard Really Help Calm an Already Militarized Ferguson? | Jacob Siegel | August 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey decided to run all investigation over to the Mississippi highway patrol and get the whole damn thing out of the county.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTClark was a big, easygoing fellow, a plodder, a fifteen-year man with the highway patrol.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Inside the precinct of the highway patrol, officers asked each other what Woods had to hide.
He was sitting quietly on the edge of the rear seat when the Nevada highway patrol cars drove up next to them.
That Sweet Little Old Lady | Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)I'm going to do a couple of highway patrol cars and Doc Adams'.
The Year When Stardust Fell | Raymond F. Jones
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