private eye
Example Sentences
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The author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” sends a private eye on the trail of a missing heiress in a complex, comic, Prohibition-era caper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
The article focused on Robert Winnett, the British journalist poised to take over The Post’s newsroom in November, and described his links to a private eye who used unethical media practices to land big exclusives.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Apple TV+’s “Sugar,” like “Monsieur Spade,” forgoes the shadow world of black-and-white noir to surround private eye John Sugar in the warm light of Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024
The great Richard Roundtree, who died this week at 81, played which private eye in five movies over a 50-year period?
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023
No one had aroused more suspicion than the private eye called Pike.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
