Words similar to detective

Example sentences for: detective

How can you use “detective” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Detective Young was able to indulge in his cheap moralizing four centuries later because back then, everything about sugar was suspect--its novelty and potency, its exotic origin in Moorish Spain, its pure pharmocopoeal whiteness.
Scarpetta was the American counterpart, in a way, to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison of the British TV series Prime Suspect . As sales skyrocketed, Cornwell hired a staff of researchers to help work up her autopsy nightmares.
Cowboy, detective, gangster, thriller, western —all refer to film categories, though gangster (or, rather, gangsterism ) can be many kinds of coercive behavior, even schoolyard bullying.
1510), and similar texts from France, Spain, Italy, and England, through the criminal biography, fictionalized accounts of crime and the underworld, and finally the detective novel.
Courtney B. Vance shows up as an officious homicide detective from a nearby city who finds Holly Springs' lazy informality irritating, but none of the women wants to answer his queries: They want to flirt with him, and he can't help falling into their easy rhythms.