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Examples of gumshoe in a Sentence
Noun
the couple paid a gumshoe to look for their missing son
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Country Living Staff, Country Living, 8 Sep. 2023
The leakers’ tactics are as gumshoe as obtaining the phone number of a target, then convincing a phone carrier to switch that number to their phone’s SIM card to gain access to their text and audio messages.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
Marlowe, however, is not the only gumshoe on the case.
—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
An aspiring gumshoe, Susie is first introduced as a precocious grade schooler, sitting beside her mother, Anne (Jammie Patton) as the two read a detective novel — the nice kind that encourages adolescent curiosity and ends with a virtuous sleuth catching a mustache-twirling menace.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 July 2023
Yearling Sammy Keyes There have been plenty of kid detectives over the years, particularly high school gumshoes.
—Maureen Lee Lenker and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
Dressed up as a post-modern, neo-noir detective piece in the style of Raymond Chandler novels or Hitchcockian classics, playwright E.M. Lewis’ stab at suspense can’t fill the gumshoes of its masterful ancestral archetypes.
—oregonlive, 16 May 2023
Noir Bar brings all of Muller's extensive knowledge, commitment to extensive research, and penchant for a good time to the table and swizzles them together with a healthy pour of booze resulting in a book sure to appeal to everyone from a scheming femme fatale to a wise-cracking gumshoe.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2023
As the script loses its nimble dialogue, Rock sheds his snappier early mixture of smart stand-up and steely-eyed gumshoe for an unsuccessful pouty-faced exterior.
—Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
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Noun
Pay Out a Reward Send gumshoes home with Detect-It-Yourself kits.
—Country Living Staff, Country Living, 8 Sep. 2023
The leakers’ tactics are as gumshoe as obtaining the phone number of a target, then convincing a phone carrier to switch that number to their phone’s SIM card to gain access to their text and audio messages.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
Marlowe, however, is not the only gumshoe on the case.
—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
An aspiring gumshoe, Susie is first introduced as a precocious grade schooler, sitting beside her mother, Anne (Jammie Patton) as the two read a detective novel — the nice kind that encourages adolescent curiosity and ends with a virtuous sleuth catching a mustache-twirling menace.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 July 2023
Yearling Sammy Keyes There have been plenty of kid detectives over the years, particularly high school gumshoes.
—Maureen Lee Lenker and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
Dressed up as a post-modern, neo-noir detective piece in the style of Raymond Chandler novels or Hitchcockian classics, playwright E.M. Lewis’ stab at suspense can’t fill the gumshoes of its masterful ancestral archetypes.
—oregonlive, 16 May 2023
Noir Bar brings all of Muller's extensive knowledge, commitment to extensive research, and penchant for a good time to the table and swizzles them together with a healthy pour of booze resulting in a book sure to appeal to everyone from a scheming femme fatale to a wise-cracking gumshoe.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2023
As the script loses its nimble dialogue, Rock sheds his snappier early mixture of smart stand-up and steely-eyed gumshoe for an unsuccessful pouty-faced exterior.
—Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
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“Gumshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gumshoe. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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