How to Use perp walk in a Sentence

perp walk

noun
  • The police recorded the perp walk and shared it with the press.
    — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There is one way a sheriff can do a perp walk outside the federal courthouse in a non-shameful way.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Spurlock did a voluntary social media mea culpa on his drinking and treatment of women, and he and the film were promptly canceled after that perp walk.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Later in the evening, the White House released video of Maduro’s perp walk at the DEA facility.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Several media outlets have reported that FBI leadership had planned a public perp walk for Comey.
    — The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That thought occurred to me yesterday, watching High Sheriff Steve Tompkins do the perp walk outside the federal courthouse at his arraignment on extortion charges.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon… MSNBC has no facts and no audience.
    — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Combined with the images of Mangione coming off of a helicopter on his way to a Manhattan courthouse — a perp walk that resembled a Marvel movie — Mangione’s arrest had a lot of the trademarks that would inspire people thinking about committing crimes.
    — Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
  • Early on in the Department of Homeland Security’s operations, ICE and the Border Patrol made all sorts of perp walks into videos and memes optimized for social media.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The White House’s official Rapid Response X account shared footage of his apparent perp walk, showing the moment Maduro was escorted by federal agents at the US Drug Enforcement Administration offices in New York.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026

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