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
• Williams had stopped Reynolds and was planning to frisk him.
  — Hartford Courant, 15 Dec. 2022
• Over the next 25 minutes, Lea was pulled from his car, frisked and handcuffed.
  — Mike Trautmann, The Courier-Journal, 31 Dec. 2019
• The male passenger sitting in the back seat, Yust, was frisked.
  — Kaitlyn Schwers, kansascity, 14 Feb. 2018
• Five officers pulled up and stopped and frisked Mr. Lewis.
  — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• Then Nya, a capuchin monkey who’ll frisk you for snacks.
  — Chris Martins, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2018
• People were frisked in 52% of those stops, but a weapon was found in only 1.5% of those cases.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2019
• The agents frisked Cruz and other workers and handcuffed and questioned them.
  — Maura Dolan, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Employees were frisked at the beginning and ends of their shift.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Trump himself has been a supporter of stop and frisk tactics.
  — Zohreen Shah, ABC News, 16 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• They are frisked and removed from the building where they are placed in police cars awaiting questioning.
  — Anneclaire Stapleton, CNN, 19 May 2018
• Burroughs wrote that Herrera was frisked, and a state trooper removed $2,000 cash from his pocket.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Two officers threw him against the vehicle, frisked and handcuffed him.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• 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
• Others were wary of being stopped and frisked by police, not realizing the reports were false.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 10 Feb. 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
• 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
• The landmark case found that the Fourth Amendment is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks them without probable cause.
  — Fox News, 11 Feb. 2020
• Next, the three officers decided to frisk McClain for weapons, which is legally allowed only where there is a belief that safety is in danger, the report states.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 23 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Police then retook the complex, stopping and frisking the young protesters who remained nearby.
  — Shibani Mahtani, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• Officers began to pat-frisk the four males surrounding the vehicle, and uncovered a handgun in the waistband of 22-year-old Sekou Sesay of Dorchester, police said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2021

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frisk

2 of 2 noun

• The first was from stop-and-frisk records in New York City.
  — Amanda Cox, New York Times, 12 July 2016
• New York City had a very strong program of stop-and-frisk.
  — Tim Perry, CBS News, 3 June 2019
• Stop-and-frisk sweeps by cops can get guns off the streets, Herrmann said.
  — Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021
• Boston has a high rate of stop and frisk of young men of color.
  — Kalpana Jain, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
• To start, Bloomberg was asked about stop and frisk in January.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 17 Dec. 2019
• And when the stops lead to frisks, a weapon is recovered only 1 percent of the time.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Hop along as we stop-and-frisk some innocent black men.
  — Nina Sharma, Longreads, 2 June 2017
• Adams is a former Republican who would take us back to the era of stop and frisk.
  — Marisa Carroll, Curbed, 8 June 2021
• The reassignments also close one of the last chapters of stop-and-frisk, Shea added.
  — Pervaiz Shallwani and Julian Cummings, CNN, 17 June 2020
• 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 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
• 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
• Over the years, a profound consequence of the NYPD’s expansion of stop-and-frisk became clear.
  — ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2020
• However, The Gothamist reported Sewell has echoed the mayor-elect’s view on stop-and-frisk.
  — Essence, 17 Dec. 2021
• Contra Heritage, stop-and-frisk is exhibit A of the problem.
  — Barry Friedman, Slate Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
• Governed by the Fourth Amendment, stop and frisk requires two conditions to be met.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2020
• Do homicides go up in cities with stop-and-frisk requirements like Chicago’s?
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
• Do homicides go up in cities with stop-and-frisk requirements like Chicago's?
  — Salvador Rizzo, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
• The city and the department have faced lawsuits, including over stop-and-frisk policies.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2020
• The video footage of Gray’s arrest was a gruesome display of stop-and-frisk brutality.
  — Andre Henry, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
• Stop-and-frisk became a key feature of the overall strategy to reduce crime.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Green claimed the stop and frisk that revealed the weapon was unconstitutional.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2017
• At the time, many New Yorkers were frustrated with Bloomberg’s support of stop-and-frisk police tactics.
  — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2021
• Yet even some Black legislators who have endorsed Mr. Adams disagree with his stance on stop and frisk.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2021
• Updates on compliance with the settlement agreement in the ACLU stop-and-frisk lawsuit.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Hasina agreed to address the crowd, the Ritz pushed the tables and chairs to the sides of their Old Dominion room, and security formed a frisk and scan line to clear and funnel at least 200 people into the ballroom.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024