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

Wright also added that a gendarme caught on film with a firearm would be identified and prosecuted.

From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2022

Spain expelled another deserter, Mohamed Abdellah, a dissident gendarme, to Algeria last August.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2022

After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat