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How to use detectives in a sentence

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More than 200 people called a police incident room, and the names of 130 men were given to detectives.
Both revealed systematic malpractice, and led to the imprisonment of several senior detectives.
A major manhunt was launched and detectives made numerous appeals in a bid to catch the culprit.
I'm a Scot by birth living in Australia and writing about London detectives.
Forensic teams were yesterday scouring the area for clues, while detectives conducted house to house interviews.
The former member of her boyfriend's legal team was taken to a police station in the Manchester area and questioned by detectives.
Many senior detectives had been fearful the self-confessed drugs dealer was somehow going to thwart justice.
As part of the operation, 11 detectives used a battering ram to smash down the front door of the Keswick Street house at 7.30 am.
The measures were taken after South Yorkshire detectives received a tip-off that Nelson was in danger.
He claimed another criminal who ran a cannabis farm with Taylor was behind the killing, but that detectives manipulated evidence to frame him.
Skelton said the two suspects were seen running across a service road on the mountain by two plain clothes West Vancouver police detectives.
More than two decades before, a torrent of information had overwhelmed detectives hunting the Yorkshire Ripper.
Once, when detectives raided the house, nearby residents moved quickly to protect the girls.
There the teen-age detectives are constantly beset by vicious henchmen of a criminal mastermind.
Although detectives were aware that the shopworker was in immediate danger, they did not know why he was being targeted.
But detectives said it was too early to speculate on the man's identity and were also checking all other missing people reports.
All I could see when I went out into my garden were Garda cars and around 10 guards and detectives around the field.
The officer recalled a surveillance operation when detectives monitored them in a house in the Carndonagh area.
Harry and his fellow detectives faced communist and terrorist groups, as well as common kidnappers and blackmailers.
We are not the bloodthirsty killers the detectives would lead you to believe.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Vancouver was chuck-full of detectives, many of whom Phil knew by sight, while the others he sensed.
The detectives had been punctilious to avoid ruffling the sensibilities of any and all.
Naturally I canceled my plans to go to Munich, and stayed, employing detectives.
Nevertheless, the assassin was quite equal to smudging out the detectives, believe me, Sir Walter.
They were at snuffer's house, and saw the detectives pass, and started out with the avowed purpose of capturing them.
A few detectives had also managed to find their way here, and there was even one provocateur.
The temperance men sent up two detectives from Kincardine, who were low characters, and would swear to anything.
What a penchant all our honest detectives have for gems, and where do they get them?
The next witnesses of importance were the two detectives crim and McDermott.
I myself took the plate from the dark slide, and, under the eyes of the two detectives, placed it in the developing dish.
With the detectives on duty at the London termini reinforced and on strict watch, her chances of doing so were very slim.
He had arranged to surround the Alsop place quietly with his best detectives.
I had not been as fortunate as some detectives, for there was no evidence that the straws had ever been used in a sabot at all.
The woman told detectives about statements made to her by Shows in which he allegedly incriminated himself and Ross, Harris said.
One of the detectives detailed to this assignment was Hyman Ginsburg.
If you hire detectives, Mr. Briggs, you must take care of them.
The detectives sent to butte the previous day went too late.
Connery adopted a familiar stratagem of the private detectives.
On the other side of the issue, detectives who use recaps prefer getting concise and clearly incriminating statements.
You're cruel, Mr. Deland, cruel as detectives can so often be!
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