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

Mali's gendarme police force said Ms Pétronin was reportedly in the Sikasso area, close to Mali's south-eastern border with Burkina Faso.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2021

After 35 years of digging, investigators determined that the suspect had worked as a gendarme in the Paris region between 1986 and 1994, and summoned 750 current or former officers for questioning this week.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021

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

On most nights, the people stayed at the site long after this gendarme had gone and told stories to one another beneath the big blank screen.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat