noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
state trooper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
state
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His bicycle was found close to the start of a forest trail. State troopers called off a search earlier this week.
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Wallace finally deployed state troopers , who used shotguns and indiscriminate beating to suppress the blacks.
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The four-day siege, in which 11 guards and 32 inmates were killed, ended with state troopers storming the prison.
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Governor George Busbee sent state troopers to the town of 2, 100 people after the incident.
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Clinton used a state trooper to lure her to a hotel room during a state-sponsored event in 1991.
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About one hundred state troopers wearing bulletproof vests kept the groups well separated after a fistfight broke out in the afternoon.
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Violanti, a former state trooper , is a professor of criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Claiming their masks were ineffective against the gas employed by the marshals, the state troopers withdrew from the campus.
■ VERB
swear
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Throwing on a dressing-gown and swearing like a trooper , you stumble to answer it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And where was he going 90 minutes after the bombing when stopped by an Oklahoma trooper on Interstate 35 near Perry?
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For decades these latter had been infiltrating the administration and even the troopers.
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In 1994, a Maryland State trooper saw a car speeding down Interstate 95.
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We dropped off the troopers and picked up wounded.