detective

Example Sentences

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Was there someone who ... was powerful who let him off the hook, and I just thought it was a good time to take a new look at it like a cold case detective would.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

In that same barrio, Flores raised three children with her first husband, Walter Gavidia, a police detective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Grandfather, who puffs on Gauloises cigarettes, resembles Baroness Orczy’s Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who solves crimes from the confines of a London tea shop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The police watchdog said that a former detective constable could face gross misconduct proceedings - relating to alleged failures to properly investigate - and that two former detective sergeants were being investigated for alleged misconduct.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The only way to match a fingerprint was to get lucky—and since there were almost a million entries in Bertillon’s files, a detective would have to get really lucky.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day