'patrolled' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb used to describe the action of an individual or group supervising a place or area for security or safety reasons. Example sentence: Police officers patrolled the streets throughout the night.
While hearsay has become admissible in court, free speech is being patrolled by officious use of public order laws.
In a show of strength, they guarded major buildings in the city's downtown area and patrolled the harbour.
The red carpet runs up the steps of the Palais, bathed in sunlight, patrolled by goons, and overlooked by the milling crowds down on the Croisette.
My long weekend had begun 48 hours earlier when 15 strangers assembled for a guided swimming trip that would see us cover 17km of the river Wye, from the market town of Ross to the magnificent Symonds Yat gorge that's patrolled by peregrine falcons.
The areas where prostitution is allowed are equipped with CCTV cameras and regularly patrolled, leading to a decrease in violence, campaigners say.
The suffragette and novelist Rebecca West admired the "pretty young girls" but also noted that they were contained on a site "ringed with barbed war entanglements and patrolled by sentries".
Zimmerman, who saw Martin walking through his neighborhood in a now infamous grey hoodie, called 911 and associated the innocent 17-year-old with a recent spate of crime in the gated community he patrolled.
Meanwhile, Turkey's chief-of-staff, General Necdet Ozel, travelled to the southern city of Adana to inspect the region patrolled by Turkey's 2nd Army, which protects the border with Syria.
A ceasefire line turned into a UN-patrolled green line.
The Jordan River, by tripartite accord, would be the well-patrolled barrier to any infiltration of arms or armies.The second piece, from Jeffrey Goldberg over at The Atlantic, reflects the outrage sweeping liberal circles both inside Israel and in the Jewish diaspora over the passage in the Knesset last week of an "anti-boycott law".
The local growers' co-operatives have been authorised to send 8,000 tonnes this year, the biggest consignment since Israel's then prime minister, Ariel Sharon, first agreed in 2004 to allow this trade with Syria.Though not exactly a humanitarian cargo, the apples are shipped in Red Cross lorries through the UN-patrolled border at Kuneitra.
