Used in a Sentence

detective

How to use detective in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for detective.

Editorial note

A good bit of detective work. This is how you "do" journalism.

Examples15
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a police officer who investigates crimes

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of detective gathered in one view.

noun

a police officer who investigates crimes

noun

an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for detective.

noun

a police officer who investigates crimes

noun

an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

Example sentences

1

A good bit of detective work. This is how you "do" journalism.

2

Nice detective skills, but I'm not hiding anything.

3

Mrs Todd read the notes and handed them back to the detective. My son might have killed himself, but he did not write this, she said with some calm.

4

And when you do there will be some sort of roadblock, they won't have the forms, the officer in question wasn't on shift that night, the detective is quite hostile to you, the victim. You'll learn what I've learned.

5

Now what if someone decides to play detective and look through twitter history and sees my comments and accuse me publicly. Ruined.

6

And my favourite paragraph: > "There could be child pornography, there could be bomb-making recipes," said one detective." Unless you tell us we're never gonna know...

7

It involves little detective work and no long drawn out confessions. When cheating is detected, simply send a note to the student with the following: "I'm aware that you cheated on this assignment.

8

That's the kind of "withholding information" tactic you would use if you were playing the role of a detective without actually having any idea how to investigate. What purpose does it serve?

9

Books written very long ago are slow because I read them like a detective, looking not just at what the author means to say, but also at what he's saying implicitly about how things were at the time. Other books I read slowly because they're so good I don't want them to end.

10

I'm not really pro-police but I remember wishing the detective who caught the defendant had worked my case, where the thief was never found. The personality dynamics of the deliberations are really interesting, too.

11

From the fake article: One detective elaborates." Officers on the scene report a broken glass, a box of vintage wine, and what seems to be a family album strewn across the floor, containing images from days gone by; some containing handpainted portraits of Murdoch in his early days, donning a top hat and monocle."

12

I thought I was not nave, he said when announcing a guilty verdict involving a police detective who had planted crack cocaine on a pair of suspects. But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed.

13

So, when a prosecutor / detective blatantly ignores contradictory evidence and end up putting an innocent person in jail, why do we not treat that as a crime? There are a number of obvious cynical answers to this, but seriously, does anyone know of prosecutors / detectives that have been charged in cases like this?

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> But now, following a legal ruling, the deerstalker-wearing detective is headed to another destination: the public domain He wore what might have been a deerstalker in parts of two stories, and in both he was in a setting where a deerstalker would have been a normal hat to wear. Most of the time in most of the stories he was not in such a setting, and would have been wearing something else.

15

I have very little desire to again be on a conference call with a lawyer and a police detective about violation of a restraining order made possible by an ex-husband being able to essentially proxy his harassing phone calls through my software. There exist a variety of potential scalable anti-abuse measures you could implement here.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use detective in a sentence?

A good bit of detective work. This is how you "do" journalism.

What does detective mean?

a police officer who investigates crimes

What part of speech is detective?

detective is commonly used as noun.