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Recent Examples of gendarme Good thing the gendarmes were so generous. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 The resulting bloodshed brings the pair of goofy gendarmes into bewildered action, as the Zero cavalry trots in on short-legged white horses and Jony, Line, Rudy, and the local One leader, Jane (Anamaria Vartolomei), deploy on their respective sides. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2025 Some, for example, may overcome their longstanding reluctance to send their own gendarmes to provide civil order in Gaza during reconstruction, as an alternative to taking Palestinians into their own country. Carine Harb, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025 Sadly, the Ferrari’s promising racing career came to a screeching halt when French gendarmes seized the car at the Paris Orly airport parking lot—something about a dispute between Monsieur Fayen and the French tax authorities. Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gendarme
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gendarme
Noun
  • Today’s policed are tomorrow’s policemen.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The actors tells the stories of the deceased, including cattleman and 6666 ranch owner Samuel Burk Burnett, and the city’s first Black policeman, Hagar Tucker.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Creekmore, 60, currently works a consumer and mortgage loan officer at People's Bank.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Wilson is still Nottingham Forest’s chief football officer and was in attendance at St James’ Park on Sunday as a visiting official.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The cops showed up and arrested him for God knows what, but Lee definitely didn’t serve four days and one morning for protesting apartheid or being gay in Victorian England.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Silver family is comprised of Boston District Attorney Mae Silver (Gloria Reuben), Boston PD Detective Lena Silver, Police Superintendent Sarah Silver (Maggie Lawson), rookie cop Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner) and renowned Baptist pastor Reverend Edwin Peters (Ernie Hudson).
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Randles plays Elle Hardy, a senior constable assigned to reinvestigating the case.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The county then introduced a budget proposal that cut the sheriff’s salary in half and the constable’s salary by 75 percent, to $31,000.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025

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“Gendarme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gendarme. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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