The roundsman was found gossiping with two patrolmenon another beat.
The other told where he belonged and left quickly for his post, while the roundsman made a poor fist of explaining that he was “just admonishing the patrolmen to move around and do their duty” when the commissioner came up.
The work of the patrolmen involves frequent danger and almost constant hardship.
Inky darkness shrouds sea and land, and the wind, blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, pipes and roars defiance to the patrolmen as they struggle along their lonely beats.
To make matters worse, as it was a small boat, the patrolmen were so jammed in with their prisoners that they would have little chance in case of trouble.
It was also history that at least two patrolmen who had tried to take him dead had died themselves.
At the end of half a day's fighting, the patrolmen had drawn off in wrecked boats, with one of their number killed and three wounded.
Also a sort of tacit agreement seemed to have been reached between the patrolmen and the fishermen.
I put the Reindeer about on the other tack, ran up under the lee of a junk, shivered the mainsail into the wind and lost headway, and forged past the stern of the junk so slowly and so near that one of the patrolmen stepped lightly aboard.
But the instructions of the Fish Commission were to the effect that the patrolmen should avoid complications, and this one, did we call on the higher powers, might well end in a pretty international tangle.
My advice to you would be to keep out the patrolmen who are demanding admittance and get in touch with the chief of police.
Another reason why I didn't want patrolmen tramping around," he said in an undertone, "is this.
If the patrolmen are allowed to wipe their hands over Mr. Winston's counter they may destroy valuable evidence.
It was that there were, everywhere and always, more Patrolmen than there were goons.
Above all he saw the difference in numbers: six or seven or eight Patrolmen to four or five or six of his own kind.
But while the Patrolmen were still in space a plane of force sheared off the entire side of the room, a tractor beam jerked the detached wall away, and the attackers floated in en masse.
To blow the one remaining raider out of the ether would have been easy enough, but that was exactly what the Patrolmen did not want to do.
There were Lensmen andPatrolmen all over the place, thicker than hair on a dog.
In a matter of seconds the pirate hulk lay helpless, and the Patrolmen peeled her like an orange--or, rather, more like an amateur cook very wastefully peeling a potato.
He could see light coming under two of the doors, meaning patrolmen behind them.
One of the patrolmen was doing a good job with an energizer, coming closer with each shot, before Nelson finally saw where he was, and fired at him.
Three patrolmen dead meant a lot of searching to find the killers.
He was running up the hillside a short while later--he had lost track of time as such--hoping that Glynnis would use her gun if any patrolmen were following him.
I hear you had a talk with the patrolmen after I left the train.
Maybe we'll see more of you before very long," said one of the patrolmen with a grin.
He thrust out his face and grinned at the patrolmen like a snarling dog.
I put the Reindeer about on the other tack, ran up under the lee of a junk, shivered the mainsail into the wind and lost headway, and forged past the stern of the junk so slowly and so near that one of the patrolmen stepped lightly aboard.
They found one man who would make affidavit to the fact that patrolmen had paid him to instigate burglaries in order that the patrolmen might make arrests and win promotion.
Under him there were assigned regular patrolmen and special patrolmen, and to a certain extent the superintendent cooperates with supervisors of towns.
But side by side with the bravest, equally efficient, equally trained and disciplined, worked the patrolmen of our fire associations.
He was going to Pepperill's house, after meeting Cudjo, that night when thepatrolmen discovered and whipped him.
One came toward East Broadway, where the detectives and their companions had just alighted from the car, and the other, breaking into a run, dived into Henry Street, with two patrolmen after him.
Steingall and Clancy ran forward, and the fugitive coming their way had actually passed them, with two morepatrolmen in pursuit, when Steingall saw him and turned instantly.
I led them, and two other patrolmen who joined us, to the shelter of my wing-wall.
This was lucky for me, for as it happened I was ten minutes older before I heard two patrolmen on the outside, wondering what frightened old cove had been at the pains to spring a rattle.
The various districts to which patrolmen are assigned, is that correct?
My assignment then and now is sergeant of police, supervisingpatrolmen in the radio patrol division.
I walked out of Captain Fritz' office, and I had a couple of patrolmen trying to weed their way through the news media so that I could have walking room to get to the elevator to get back to the fourth floor, the ID bureau.
There was a further change into patrolmen in thick Scotch caps, and Guernsey jackets and heavy, stamping boots, into watchers for the night coming and going.
The weather outside was not at all attractive to the patrolmen that day, and when the twilight drew its dusky curtains about the station, the outlook was still bad.
Tom Walker and the other arrival from upstairs, were dressing for their duty as patrolmen in the place of the two whose chilling wintry beat had just been accomplished.
Where two station deestricts join, the patrolmen from the stations meet, and exchange what they call 'checks,' that they give to their keepers.
As the different patrolmen arrived, they came with dripping hats, with faces wet by the storm, with clothes that hung stiffly about them.
Some patrolmen start at one side of the road and gradually work across the road on successive trips, finally finishing up at the side opposite that at which the start was made.
This work is done by patrolmen or by special gangs and generally will be done once each year.
In general, either maintenance gangs or patrolmen are employed and often both are used on the same road system.
The upkeep of the side roads is cared for by patrolmen who drag the side roads and cut the weeds as occasion requires.
As the two patrolmen came abreast of them one of them flashed his light.
A riot call had been sent in and the streets were alive withpatrolmen and detectives all on the trail of Johnny and his Japanese companion.
Four men dashed suddenly from the darkness, and before the patrolmen could draw guns or clubs, before Johnny could realize what was happening, the officers were flat on the pavement, with hands and feet tied.
A crew of four patrolmen had seen three to six of the disks, "shaped like chrome hub caps," traveling very fast.
This was a very curious situation because no one except Simpson, the airline pilot, and the two harbor patrolmen knew what was taking place.
Later reports say that the two harbor patrolmen mysteriously disappeared soon after the fatal crash.
He had called the two harbor patrolmen and they were on their way to the hotel.
Three men from there, Patrolmen Callahan and O'Brien and a plain-clothes man named Stodger, are at the house holding two suspects until somebody shows up from the Central Office.
These patrolmen mix with the people and, if necessary, remind them in a courteous way to be careful to extinguish their camp fires before breaking camp.
In regions which have very few high points and which are not suited to that method of detection, moving patrolmen are employed.
The commissioners shall divide said city into precincts, not exceeding one precinct to each thirty-six of the patrolmen authorized to be appointed.
They shall appoint as many captains of police as there may be precincts, and assign one captain and as many sergeants and patrolmen as they shall deem sufficient to each precinct.
The horse-patrolmen became mounted constables, being attached as such to the exterior divisions, where the beats were long; and this arrangement has been continued to the present day.
Briefly the organisation was as follows--the City was divided into four divisions with three day patrols to each division, in all twelvepatrolmen at one and a half guineas a week each.
The senior general didn't take his eyes from the alien and the spacecraft as he spoke, and they bugged quite as effectively as had those of the patrolmen when they'd first arrived on the scene.
Further discussion was interrupted by the screaming arrival of several motorcycle patrolmen followed by three heavily laden patrol cars.
While the patrolmen watched him, he set the box on the ground, twirled two dials and put one of the caps on his head.
The patrolmen could not see one another or know what to do; but M.
There was furious cursing among the patrolmen as they tumbled about in the room, the unhurt ones trampling their prostrate companions and striking wildly at each other in their blindness and confusion.
All of them arrived safe, and they were immediately taken to the house, where they warmed themselves by Tom's fire, while the patrolmen made hot coffee for them, and then set about getting breakfast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patrolmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
