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How to use gendarmes in a sentence

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

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There are several police forces, including internal security police, gendarmes, and military police.
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
But some early baseball caps sat up, blocky, like what tops the crowns of French gendarmes.
Anticipating trouble, in June the French Government dispatched 300 gendarmes to Tahiti to ensure that law and order were maintained.
There were three gendarmes in plain clothes, a little pumped up with the adrenaline of the occasion.
The men were interned after barely escaping a full-dress skirmish with the local gendarmes.
Pale French gendarmes, seemingly plucked straight from Paris point duty, look lost directing the coconut trees.
What he's sent is Diane, a street gamine two jumps ahead of the gendarmes.
There were two gendarmes on bicycles who were liaison agents and a small floating population of chauffeurs and maquisards undertaking various duties.
The police obviously marked me down as a criminal because next time I was at a French auction I was surrounded by gun-toting gendarmes who arrested me again.
On the other side, the land army, army intelligence units, and the corps of gendarmes oppose such reforms, which they find excessively constraining.
It was also common to see the jeeps of the island's French gendarmes speeding by on the road loaded down with confiscated marijuana plants in the back.
Turkish gendarmes ran past me, shouting at the refugees to clear off, firing more canisters for good measure.
Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.
Examples from Classical Literature
A moment more and a captain of gendarmes appears and shouts something in excited, gesticulative French.
By ill luck, a party of gendarmes were in the village, weather-bound on their way from Latsch.
But I was in luck 'cause a Frenchman had just started his camion an' I jumped in and said the gendarmes were after me.
Got pally with six French gendarmes and hope to see them again when I have another spell off.
We reached the chateau, and, as we approached it, saw four gendarmes pacing in front of a little door in the ground floor of the donjon.
You know very well that I have but to lift my finger and the gendarmes will be here.
Daubenton and a huissier departed with the prisoner and four gendarmes.
Here I mostly live, and here I shall certainly die, if the gendarmes ever track me here.
Listen to me, Monsieur du Bousquier, my honor doesn't need gendarmes to drag you to the mayor's office.
The ante-chamber was full of police agents and gendarmes, in the midst of whom, carefully watched, but calm and smiling, stood the prisoner.
By the torchlight Dantes saw the glittering sabres and carbines of four gendarmes.
Two sentries stood at the door, several gendarmes lounged under the great carriage gateway, and on the first-floor landing two orderlies rose and stood at attention.
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