Example Sentences

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On the streets, Iranian police and security forces, many in plain-clothes, are out in force.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

The number of plain-clothes military intelligence officers present there helps explain their nervousness.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

One of those videos captured a plain-clothes police officer shouting "uaa!"

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025

A mum opens the door to two plain-clothes police officers in Hackney, east London.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024

Finally, the two plain-clothes policemen ushered Sister Betty to have her last sight of her husband.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey