Example sentences for: pinkerton

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

  • "That's the first time I paid attention," said Pinkerton.

  • The issue did not take for Gore, but the exchange attracted the interest of Jim Pinkerton, the research director for the then flailing Bush campaign.

  • In the 19 th century it meant Pinkerton's, which yesterday agreed to be purchased by Sweden's Securitas AB for $384 million.

  • Under the control of the Department of War, its first head was the legendary private detective Allan Pinkerton, a friend of McClellan's who had learned of--and helped avert--an attempt on Lincoln's life in 1861.

  • When Lincoln fired the famously inept McClellan, Pinkerton went, too.


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