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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The private detective Snider hired to tail Dorothy and Bogdanovich, Marc Goldstein, had, according to a suit filed by Bogdanovich and the Stratten estate, stolen Dorothy’s diaries and other personal effects, sold them to a studio.
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Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
Lydia Chin is anchored in Chinatown and in her family, while Bill Smith has no family and is a more traditional private detective.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
That is not a slight against Craig, whose ’90s-boy-band bangs and Foghorn Leghorn accent make private detective Benoit Blanc a delightful iconoclast.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
Down Cemetery Road Cast Emma Thompson leads the cast as private detective Zoë Boehm.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
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Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
Lydia Chin is anchored in Chinatown and in her family, while Bill Smith has no family and is a more traditional private detective.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
That is not a slight against Craig, whose ’90s-boy-band bangs and Foghorn Leghorn accent make private detective Benoit Blanc a delightful iconoclast.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
Down Cemetery Road Cast Emma Thompson leads the cast as private detective Zoë Boehm.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Private detective.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20detective. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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