Toggle navigation
fatLingo
TOEFL Words
Academic Words
Sign In
Sentence example with the word 'detective'
detective
G-man, catechist, deputy sheriff, gumshoe, inspector, mace-bearer, peeper, police sergeant, prober, sampler, superintendent
Definition
n.
a police officer who investigates crimes
Last update: June 12, 2015
2
Once I got an opportunity to read a thrilling
detective
novel.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
2
I appointed a very well known
detective
to solve the murder case.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
The police
detective
helped us by perjuring himself.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Something
detective
read off blottingpad.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Looking for a private
detective
.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
"I am not a
detective
, after all."
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
"A
detective
, no."
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
"So it was a
detective
."
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
"Detective or Inspector Royds, if you're any the wiser."'
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Goode favored the
detective
with a saurian smile.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
"They tell me Colonel Rand is a
detective
, too," Geraldine continued.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!
Submit
detections
- detective -
detectives
USE IN A SENTENCE
RECENT
thoroughness
unflagging
triumvirs
nihil
dilatoriness
setting
misstatements
rainfalls
despoiler
fearfullest
bedgown
verses
sachems
researcher
obtruded
...
POPULAR
demography
abash
glutton
fallacious
inveigle
urbanization
prodigy
abscond
wanderlust
affluent
insatiable
vivacious
foreword
dauntless
delegation
lacerate
gambol
eavesdrop
rambunctious
hypocritical
concatenate
gobble
plutocracy
curveting
belligerent
dyslexia
chronicle
fearless
jaunt
decorum
valediction
lambaste
finicky
bough
outgoing
...
TOP CONTRIBUTORS
Username
Points
hardcore
7857
babyrules
2901
Nemo
1222
nowhere
1095
Aralis
1025
alman777
413
micmac
408