Examples of gumshoe in a Sentence
Noun
the couple paid a gumshoe to look for their missing son
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Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
When the populist demagogue Willie Stark orders Burden, journalist turned gumshoe, to dig up dirt on a local judge, Burden demurs; certainly there are no skeletons in the office of the good judge.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The show will star Nicolas Cage as a gumshoe version of Spider-Man in an alternate 1930s New York City.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
Alex is, at once, a proactive gumshoe and a reactive Mia-Farrow-in-Rosemary’s-Baby-type figure.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Referring to himself with words like spy, detective, gumshoe, Wilbur pulls all kinds of sleuth-like maneuvers to find out ingredients and amounts used in the recipes.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
When the populist demagogue Willie Stark orders Burden, journalist turned gumshoe, to dig up dirt on a local judge, Burden demurs; certainly there are no skeletons in the office of the good judge.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The show will star Nicolas Cage as a gumshoe version of Spider-Man in an alternate 1930s New York City.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
Alex is, at once, a proactive gumshoe and a reactive Mia-Farrow-in-Rosemary’s-Baby-type figure.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Gumshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gumshoe. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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