gendarmerie
Example Sentences
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A bike racing controversy that doesn’t involve a rogue doctor and a midnight raid by the gendarmerie?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Once on Spanish territory, they were intercepted by Spain's Guardia Civil gendarmerie at sea but managed to escape.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
"Tensions between groups broke out, requiring the intervention of the police and the gendarmerie," Vienne regional police said in a statement.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
Four mobile gendarmerie squadrons are being deployed as reinforcements, including 15 gendarmes from an elite intervention unit.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
Sweet told us that on first landing he had seen the commandant of the local gendarmerie, whom he had no difficulty in bluffing, as the skipper had foretold.
From A Kut Prisoner by H. C. W. Bishop
