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How to use plainclothes in a sentence

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

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In the midst of the chaos a flying squad of plainclothes cops rode their scooters wildly into the crowd, hitting a number of marchers.
A group of uniformed and plainclothes police officers stood guard outside the ward, screening all visitors.
London plainclothes police were on the trail of a suspected member of a terror network when he bolted in a subway.
We have seen that neither uniformed patrol nor plainclothes investigation work is very successful in crime control.
Hopefully the boys in blue and the plainclothes detectives will get things more under control.
Sylvester, known as Rocky to friends in his Harlem neighborhood, was shot in the chest by the plainclothes cop, who was frisking the man's son.
From the beginning of April the plainclothes officers will identify and arrest those suspected of kerb-crawling.
The plainclothes policewoman strikes up a conversation with a group of women suspects in the estate's launderette but does not say who she is.
He sidled up to a plainclothes security officer and thrust the box toward him.
In this case, the police sent a mobile uniformed squad somewhere else so that the observers thought it was safe and then used 70 plainclothes officers to raid the discotheque.
Ahmad claims that four plainclothes officers cuffed him to a chair, jammed open his mouth, and electrocuted his gums.
Action began last weekend when police off-road motorcyclists and plainclothes officers began targeting bikers in the Athersley and New Lodge area.
The publisher's website claimed Galbraith was a pen-name for a former plainclothes Royal Military Police Investigator.
Riot police in Tunis Wednesday fired tear gas into crowds, and plainclothes security officers beat protesters with nightsticks, witnesses said.
A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
Plainclothes and uniformed officers will be on patrol to prevent would-be troublemakers boarding flights.
Plainclothes members of the public security bureau were watching the great red gate at the entrance to the crematorium yesterday.
Plainclothes police with walkie-talkies observed the demonstration from strategic positions around the building, but made no arrests.
Plainclothes security men stand guard in the dust-caked street outside.
Examples from Classical Literature
Yet, unbeknown to him, he had preyed on a plainclothes officer who immediately called for back-up.
Padraig Mullan is appealing a two-month prison sentence after supporters and plainclothes police clashed before the Champions League match against Ajax.
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