paddy wagon

Example Sentences

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At 2 a.m., they brought them to the paddy wagon that would take them to the temporary detention facility.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022

One day, “just as I was being put in the paddy wagon, I saw all the reporters around her,” Burwell recalled.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2021

The Associated Press reported that Fonda was taken away in a paddy wagon.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019

“I stepped out of the paddy wagon and held my fist up,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2019

And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, “Take 'em off” and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, “We Shall Overcome.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry