Examples of booking office in a Sentence
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Then there are the ritual humiliations and abuses of Black women under police detention being paraded half-nude into booking offices, or hog-tied and dragged out of a police cruiser, or tased while handcuffed in a restraining chair.
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 2 Jan. 2020
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 2 Jan. 2020
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First Known Use
1814, in the meaning defined above
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“Booking office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/booking%20office. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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