FRISK in a Sentence

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For FRISK, below is one of 8 sentences:
The police officers got out of their car and proceeded to frisk a young man that happened to be crossing the street.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRISK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frisk
 v.  move about briskly and playfully; search a person for something concealed, especially a weapon, by passing the hands quickly over clothes or through pockets
Classic Sentence:
1  Tom watched and watched, hoping whenever a frisking frock came in sight, and hating the owner of it as soon as he saw she was not the right one.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Mopping, mowing, whisking, frisking, the looking glasses darted, flashed, exposed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
3  Mitya, as fresh and ruddy as his father, in nothing but his little shirt, was frisking on his shoulder, catching the big buttons of his rough country coat with his little bare toes.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  The cattle, bald in patches where the new hair had not grown yet, lowed in the pastures; the bowlegged lambs frisked round their bleating mothers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
5  Carol kissed her cheek, and frisked into the lugubrious sitting-room.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  Never once did the dogs exhibit any symptom of uneasiness, and even when we returned to the chapel they frisked about as though they had been rabbit-hunting in a summer wood.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  The police officers got out of their car and proceeded to frisk a young man that happened to be crossing the street.
2  Everyone was frisked before getting on the plane.