- present participle of patrol.
patrolling
Example Sentences
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Soldiers were also seen patrolling parts of the city.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
To be fair, I don’t know how a quiet-phone rule is supposed to be enforced, short of officers patrolling trains all day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
She said Mohammed was killed after running away from soldiers patrolling their village of Al-Rihiya, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
And he has been patrolling the skies and the lawns since 2008, ruling the roost at the centuries old site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
What I would not have given, back in Baltimore, for a line of officers, agents of my country and my community, patrolling my route to school!
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
