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Example sentences for: detective

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Outlaws Ernest Borgnine and William Holden are discussing a friend who has betrayed them by becoming a railroad detective.
Perhaps in the era of 500 TV channels there will be one devoted to new episodes of Murder, She Wrote , Columbo , Perry Mason , and to other newly conceived, civilized detective stories.
Lethem's latest genre-bending novel, featuring a Brooklyn detective afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, impresses the critics.
The wide-angle lenses spread the images out obscenely, so that the whole movie takes on the sweaty fatness of Welles' Detective Hank Quinlan, and our own sense of space is continually violated.
The neo-noir detective flick L.A.