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How to use gendarme in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gendarme? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I try to memorise this argument in case I meet a gendarme during my subsequent meandering around the lanes.
We wouldn't have been surprised to get a visit from the local gendarme about suspicious behaviour in the area.
Another car bomb exploded near a gendarme patrol, leaving 6 policemen dead and 45 persons wounded.
His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.
In September, Francis told the Swiss Guard and the gendarme that the only real threats the Vatican faces are from within.
In a belated explanation, the authorities said that his death had been an accident, and the guilty gendarme would be punished.
A French gendarme on the case has been dispatched to London, where he will be joined by three additional French investigators.
One gendarme had given the order not to give my children anything to eat.
Working with a young, female, gendarme, Enzo plows ahead, gastronomically as well as on the case.
The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.
Could a simple gendarme, soldier, police inspector or militiaman commit openly such crimes if he were not sure his hierarchy granted him immunity?
It's also relevant that Saud al-Faisal, the current Saudi foreign minister, has been in his job since 1975, when the shah was still sitting securely on his Peacock throne and acting as the west's willing gendarme in the Gulf.
Not a good week Coming off the rails ReprintsDespite France's reluctance to play post-colonial gendarme, Mr Hollande is starting to sound tougher on Mali.
Theories abound about the real reason for wishing the restaurant destroyed. After at first denying any involvement, the five admitted carrying out the undercover deed on orders from the island's chief gendarme.
One gendarme held a gun to his neck and threatened to shoot him.
The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.
The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.
Examples from Classical Literature
The gendarme, Durand, also sat down, twisting his mustache into needlelike points.
Old Tabaret took from his pocket-book a bank note, which he handed to the gendarme.
I will show you the pig of a Newfoundlander who half killed a gendarme.
He sat crouched in a corner, like a thief in the presence of a gendarme.
The widow of the gendarme officer had compassion on his embarrassment.
Show a treif gendarme a kosher coin, and he will be shivering with ague.
Then heavy steps were heard, and auguste reappeared with a gendarme.
There was a gendarme in front of the door of the lapin Agile.
I was there when the gendarme blew his brains out with a pistol.
He was shot at the same time as Silvere by Rengade, the gendarme.
A gendarme, urging his horse to a galop, arrived at full speed.
A sergeant major came in, with a gendarme, who had two women with him.
The appearance of the third gendarme settled the matter, for a crowd of curious loungers was extended before him, effectually blocking the entrance to the hotel.
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