private eye
Example Sentences
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The author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” sends a private eye on the trail of a missing heiress in a complex, comic, Prohibition-era caper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
The late, great Raymond Chandler and his private eye live on as potential IP for new books, video games, TV projects, graphic novels and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
The article focused on Robert Winnett, the British journalist poised to take over The Post’s newsroom in November, and described his links to a private eye who used unethical media practices to land big exclusives.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
The great Richard Roundtree, who died this week at 81, played which private eye in five movies over a 50-year period?
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2023
Every detective story started with the private eye or police detective taking a case, and Ophie already had that: What had happened to Clara?
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
