Examples of private detective in a Sentence
when the police insisted that it was an accident and not murder, she hired a private detective
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Her super-powered private detective first appeared on Netflix's Jessica Jones — the streamer's second Marvel series after the original Daredevil — in 2015.
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Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
The movie follows the last human private detective in a futuristic world inhabited by humans and aliens.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
The hotel is chasing him for his bill, and a private detective (Tilda Swinton) is chasing him for stealing money from a wealthy old woman.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
In the second movie in Ethan Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke’s lesbian B-movie trilogy (the first was the fizzy Drive Away Dolls), Margaret Qualley plays Honey, a stylish private detective trying to solve a case that involves a cult.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
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Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
The movie follows the last human private detective in a futuristic world inhabited by humans and aliens.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
The hotel is chasing him for his bill, and a private detective (Tilda Swinton) is chasing him for stealing money from a wealthy old woman.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
In the second movie in Ethan Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke’s lesbian B-movie trilogy (the first was the fizzy Drive Away Dolls), Margaret Qualley plays Honey, a stylish private detective trying to solve a case that involves a cult.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Private detective.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20detective. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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