gendarme
Example Sentences
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Outside, TV crews stood at the ready and a comedian dressed as a gendarme sold “genuine fake Swiss passports.”
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
Mali's gendarme police force said Ms Pétronin was reportedly in the Sikasso area, close to Mali's south-eastern border with Burkina Faso.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2021
Francois V had indeed worked as a gendarme and a police officer, and as a town councilor in the town of Prades-le-Lez in southern France.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021
Dinghies used by migrants to try to cross the channel are seen at the French gendarme brigade in Marquise, France, August 20, 2020.
From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2021
After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
