gendarme
Example Sentences
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Outside, TV crews stood at the ready and a comedian dressed as a gendarme sold “genuine fake Swiss passports.”
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
Mr Darmanin also said the officer had also "dirtied and spat on the uniform of the Republic and his 250,000 other police and gendarme colleagues".
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024
Dinghies used by migrants to try to cross the channel are seen at the French gendarme brigade in Marquise, France, August 20, 2020.
From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2021
He has passed tests to become a gendarme and hopes not to be sentenced, to keep a clean record.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2021
After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
