How to Use frisk in a Sentence

frisk

1 of 2 verb
  • They are frisked and have their mouths checked for drugs and weapons.
    — Laura Reston, New Republic, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Cops will stop and frisk CRT, and will plant guns on it when the search is clean.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Trump himself has been a supporter of stop and frisk tactics.
    — Zohreen Shah, ABC News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Employees were frisked at the beginning and ends of their shift.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The male passenger sitting in the back seat, Yust, was frisked.
    — Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Over the next 25 minutes, Lea was pulled from his car, frisked and handcuffed.
    — Mike Trautmann, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The agents frisked Cruz and other workers and handcuffed and questioned them.
    — Maura Dolan, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • Two officers threw him against the vehicle, frisked and handcuffed him.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • Some detainees were ordered to put their hands up against a bus as they were frisked and then shackled around their hands, ankles and waist.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • They are frisked and removed from the building where they are placed in police cars awaiting questioning.
    — Anneclaire Stapleton, CNN, 19 May 2018
  • Four dolphins appear to be frisking in the shallows at that location.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Others were wary of being stopped and frisked by police, not realizing the reports were false.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2020
  • One officer approached the boy and asked for his age, and then proceeded to frisk the boy's upper body and waist, the report states.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • Armed men dotted the narrow lane leading to a mosque, frisking visitors out of fear of a second suicide bomber.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The elevator opens and more cops come out, approaching Johnson and frisking him.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 6 June 2018
  • The investigative panel found that the officers had no probable cause to detain and frisk him.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The state now has cellphone detection devices at all prisons and frisks almost everyone who enters.
    — Gavin Off and Ames Alexander, charlotteobserver, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Those forms provided a wealth of statistical information about who was being stopped and frisked.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Citizens of liberal democracies do not expect to be frisked without good cause, or have their homes searched without a warrant.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • When the 12-year-old girl gets out of the car still holding her phone, the officer immediately starts frisking her.
    — Carol Thompson, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Burroughs wrote that Herrera was frisked, and a state trooper removed $2,000 cash from his pocket.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Others who joined the demonstrations stood a good chance of being frisked by Mr Sadr’s men, who looked out for troublemakers.
    — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Police then retook the complex, stopping and frisking the young protesters who remained nearby.
    — Shibani Mahtani, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
  • Walking out of a store, Scott and brothers Tyrone and Reggie were stopped and frisked for no reason, Scott writes.
    — Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2018
  • Cops had stopped, questioned, and frisked thousands of New Yorkers during Bratton’s run in the mid-’90s.
    — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Mitchell was pursued on foot by police to 63 Washington Street, where he was apprehended and frisked.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Patients who come to Srinagar’s hospitals are stopped and frisked by Indian soldiers at several places.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • With a winemaking history dating back to the late 19th century, the district is said be named for a nimble stag who frisked across its rugged peaks, giving local hunters the slip.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Shortly after, a police officer read Mangione his Miranda rights before he was frisked and handcuffed behind his back.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • At the same time, the report found that after controlling for factors like crime and neighborhood, the likelihood a person will be stopped and, when stopped, be frisked, does vary substantially by race.
    — Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017

frisk

2 of 2 noun
  • Boston has a high rate of stop and frisk of young men of color.
    — Kalpana Jain, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Stop-and-frisk sweeps by cops can get guns off the streets, Herrmann said.
    — Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021
  • To start, Bloomberg was asked about stop and frisk in January.
    — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 17 Dec. 2019
  • That approach extended to stop-and-frisk.
    — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 May 2026
  • But there were some who were whistleblowers in stop-and-frisk cases who are still in the police force.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 24 Oct. 2017
  • And when the stops lead to frisks, a weapon is recovered only 1 percent of the time.
    — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Adams is a former Republican who would take us back to the era of stop and frisk.
    — Marisa Carroll, Curbed, 8 June 2021
  • Do homicides go up in cities with stop-and-frisk requirements like Chicago's?
    — Salvador Rizzo, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Do homicides go up in cities with stop-and-frisk requirements like Chicago’s?
    — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • In the view of Heritage, widespread stop-and-frisk scared bad guys into leaving their guns at home.
    — Barry Friedman, Slate Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Stop-and-frisk became a key feature of the overall strategy to reduce crime.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The decision allowed stop and frisk to continue but with new limits.
    — Jim Sciutto, CNN, 22 June 2021
  • His stop-and-frisk policy, for example, was a plain case of racial profiling.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The reassignments also close one of the last chapters of stop-and-frisk, Shea added.
    — Pervaiz Shallwani and Julian Cummings, CNN, 17 June 2020
  • The city and the department have faced lawsuits, including over stop-and-frisk policies.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Green claimed the stop and frisk that revealed the weapon was unconstitutional.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2017
  • But the arrest rate for non-major crime and narcotic offenses dropped, as did the number of stop-and-frisk events.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The video footage of Gray’s arrest was a gruesome display of stop-and-frisk brutality.
    — Andre Henry, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Governed by the Fourth Amendment, stop and frisk requires two conditions to be met.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Democrats proposed ending the use of tear gas, stop-and-frisk policies and facial recognition software.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Stop-and-frisk rules were violated with impunity during the Bloomberg years.
    — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The other pattern is officers will attempt to justify the frisk by placing the civilian in the back seat of a squad car.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
  • Stop-and-frisk arrests regularly landed young Black and brown men in jail for minuscule amounts of weed.
    — Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2021
  • De Blasio had won election promising universal pre-K and an end to racist stop-and-frisk policing.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 5 June 2021
  • However, The Gothamist reported Sewell has echoed the mayor-elect’s view on stop-and-frisk.
    — Essence, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Its second chapter became notorious for a surge in the use of stop-and-frisk in the ’00s and ’10s.
    — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Mar. 2018
  • But just as Bloomberg's supporters tried to steer their way out of the stop-and-frisk controversy, more Bloomberg comments would emerge.
    — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2020
  • At the time, many New Yorkers were frustrated with Bloomberg’s support of stop-and-frisk police tactics.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Stop-and-frisk, which a federal court had ruled was discriminatory as practiced, had been touted as a form of crime prevention.
    — Elizabeth Glazer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • The officers conducted a pat frisk, allegedly finding a firearm from one suspect’s jacket, police said.
    — Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026

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