Sentence examples for be patted down from inspiring English sources

If drugs were legal, no one would be patted down for pills or jailed for possessing them.

The crew were adjusting the wooden walls of the prison room where Annalise would be patted down and fingerprinted.

Tamer Mohsen carried his Koran through the metal detector of this medium-security prison outside of Richmond, raising his arms to be patted down by a guard.

About 40 full-body scanners are used in airports across the United States, but passengers can choose to be patted down as an alternative.

Doyle had his fans – my mum among them – but Bodie was the one who most boys wanted to be and women wanted to be patted down by.

The agency acknowledged that the screener had incorrectly told the parents that the child needed to be patted down and incorrectly told the mother that it was illegal for her to record the encounter.

The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried.

I was patted down and my pockets were emptied; they contained nothing illegal.

Then they were patted down, shoulders to shoes, by a private security guard.

As they entered, their bags and jackets were searched, they were patted down and they moved through metal detectors.

Many were patted down, frisked, made to sprawl face down on the ground, or spread-eagle themselves against a wall or over the hood of a car.