paddy wagon
Example Sentences
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“You don’t want to come in right away loading people into the paddy wagon … You have to balance these two interests as closely as you can.”
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022
“In the paddy wagon, I told everyone the number for the Colorado Freedom Fund. I said, ‘Hey guys, repeat this number until you get to a phone.’”
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2020
But there’s one thing that’s changed: That step up into the paddy wagon is tougher at age 81.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
The Associated Press reported that Fonda was taken away in a paddy wagon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 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
