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How to use plain-clothes in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word plain-clothes? Here are some examples.

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At a police station two plain-clothes officers introduced themselves as members of Special Branch.
The role of the torturers was played by plain-clothes officers from the local police.
Khaled Mohammed Said was beaten to death by two plain-clothes police officers at an internet cafe in the city of Alexandria.
Inside the Monastery, plain-clothes security agents mingle with Buddhists and closely monitor all activities.
The plain-clothes railmen will work randomly on the network, which runs from Bedford to Brighton.
There were 5,000 police, including plain-clothes officers disguised in everything from morning coats to overalls.
Some plain-clothes police beat, abused and sexually groped women demonstrators.
Four plain-clothes armed officials made a forced entry and beat his brother-in-law, while brandishing a general arrest warrant, not specifying Emadeddin Baghi's name.
Large numbers of Security Police, in uniform and in plain-clothes, were on the scene of the demonstration, surrounding the protesters and mingling in their ranks, taking photos and filming with video cameras.
A team of plain-clothes policeman keeps her house constantly under surveillance and her telephone line is tapped.
He seemed desperate and left as plain-clothes police gathered around us.
Two white plain-clothes police officers got out and began questioning him.
Fouad Mourtada said that two plain-clothes security agents arrested him on the morning of 5 February 2008 just after he left his home to go to work and forced him into a car.
As a poster campaign aimed at urging the public to be more vigilant was launched, transport police said plain-clothes officers would patrol the Tube network.
Back in the lobby he bought a copy of Time but didn't like the way the plain-clothes crushers looked at him, and left.
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Quickly a plain-clothes man with horn-rimmed spectacles slipped in between her and the door.
There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself.
Yesterday's Record featured shocking footage of plain-clothes officers savagely kicking and kneeing supporters as they arrested them.
And again, lying at the wharf disposing of my oysters, there were dusky twilights when big policemen and plain-clothes men stole on board.
Under tight security arrangements made by the police, plain-clothes police personnel have also been deployed in the markets with the consultation of traders.
A plain-clothes police officer made himself known, and asked if Eltahawy wanted to press charges and so began filing a complaint at a Cairo police station.
Bottles were thrown as armed plain-clothes police moved in to question the suspect after being alerted by a Merseyside officer travelling with the Blues contingent.
The other two I guessed as plain-clothes men from Vancouver.
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