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Example sentences for: detective

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

This detective obliquely threatened the life of Gennifer Flowers.
Properly done, with little violence and much detection, a TV detective story is the ideal nonirritating, guilt-free interactive program.
At bottom, Pynchon writes mystery novels--symphonic, polymathic detective stories that resolve themselves not in simple sums but in hip new intellectual logarithms.
"[T]he linguistic detective story of the decade," says William Safire in the New York Times Magazine . Most reviewers concur.
For many years, Great Britain has been the source of TV detective stories.