gendarme
Example Sentences
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“They come to destroy, to injure and to kill police officers and gendarmes,” the minister said Monday when discussing the policing, according to The Associated Press.
From Washington Times
In early 1957, while transporting an injured FLN militant in the back of a car, his family said, he saw French gendarmes installing a roadblock ahead.
From Washington Post
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
She now has second thoughts about becoming a gendarme for the French military because she “didn’t feel like working for a country that doesn’t love me.”
From New York Times
It felt surreal looking a few hundred metres out of the caboose and seeing Moroccan gendarmes and border patrols.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
