house detective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He’s got the look of a house detective.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 27, 2020
Another principal figure was the arrested Hilton Hotel house detective, 39-year-old Ed Murphy.
From Slate • Jul. 11, 2012
I was asked more than once to leave the Plaza Hotel, ushered out by the house detective.
From New York Times • May 28, 2012
The booming state of California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective.
From Time Magazine Archive
The manager of the hotel and a house detective were also in the group.
From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Chapman, Allen
