prowl car
Example Sentences
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Policing was "relaxed," at best, with two officers sitting in each prowl car and driving aimlessly around the streets.
From Economist • Aug. 30, 2013
The next night, two girls, aged 15 and 16, were riding in a prowl car with Detectives John Creamer and Philip Dennehy.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it "hits" a wanted number, a bell rings, the number is automatically typed out, and the teletypist radios ahead to a second prowl car parked some 900 ft. down the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boys raced away, the prowl car hurtling after them�around corner after corner, into a one-way street.
From Time Magazine Archive
He caught a down car and got out just as the first prowl car came sirening its way into the side street curb.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
