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

Wright also added that a gendarme caught on film with a firearm would be identified and prosecuted.

From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2022

The regional gendarme commander, Gen Franz Tavart, has said for years that the length of this coastline, and the lure of the UK, means that policing alone will never be enough to stop the crossings.

From BBC • May 20, 2022

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 • Jul. 21, 2021

After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat