gendarme
Example Sentences
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Eventually two French gendarmes spotted them through the undergrowth and walked, slowly, forwards.
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At first the gendarmes declined to intervene and stood watching from the shore.
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We counted eighteen French gendarmes watching them from the shore, declining to intervene.
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For all the calls for greater security at schools, this crime took place literally under the noses of armed gendarmes.
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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
