How to Use paddy wagon in a Sentence

paddy wagon

noun
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  • And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can.
    — CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
  • This time, the Capitol Police didn’t have enough paddy wagons for all of the arrestees and had to transport some of us by bus.
    — Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • His police moved in, herding the children into squad cars, paddy wagons and school buses for the trip to jail.
    — Steven Levingston, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Behind the police was parked a paddy wagon, one of its back doors open, the corner of a bench inside it visible.
    — Caleb Crain, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • As the paddy wagons drove away, bottles, bricks and sticks flew through the air, smashing the windows of departing police cars.
    — Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2018
  • The old Times Square of pimps, prostitutes, peep shows, porn flicks and paddy wagons is gone, replaced by a different kind of hustle, aimed at tourists.
    — Richard Turner, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • They were handcuffed, placed into a police paddy wagon, and taken to the Birmingham City Jail.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 June 2020
  • That kind of calmness, however, was starkly jolted by being in the paddy wagon.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • As Perry looks away in shame, Emily's ushered into a paddy wagon, her deceased son into a hearse.
    — EW.com, 29 June 2020
  • Another white student was thrown into a paddy wagon for walking down the street with a female student from a local black college.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Hamdeed was placed in a paddy wagon, taken to jail and charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
    — al, 28 May 2021
  • Soon, they were arrested, loaded into a paddy wagon and carted off to the Marion County Jail.
    — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2018
  • William Scott, known as Bill, was among a crowd of mostly young African Americans gathering to watch the police hustle club patrons into waiting paddy wagons.
    — Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2018
  • Outside, dozens of uniformed officers were waiting with billy clubs and paddy wagons.
    — Eric Markowitz, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Faster than a hot-rodder can shift into high gear, there were four paddy wagons, five radio cars and four tactical squads — 40 men altogether — converging on the dragsters.
    — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The Associated Press reported that Fonda was taken away in a paddy wagon.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Several policemen dressed as Keystone Kops, have been driving about downtown Glendale streets in a black paddy wagon of ancient vintage, offering tickets for sale.
    — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018

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