gendarme
Example Sentences
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At first the gendarmes declined to intervene and stood watching from the shore.
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"I had enough. I panicked," he told the court, apologising to the two gendarmes he had driven into in the tiny village of Vidaillat west of Clermont-Ferrand.
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Several attempts to cross the Channel were stopped by police and gendarmes on Sunday morning - including in Equihen-Plage, Calais and Sangatte - according to French authorities.
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Eleven people have since died – nine civilians and two French gendarmes - and there are still French police on the ground.
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“Closed. You’ll have to walk around,” a French gendarme had just told them, gesturing towards the south.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
