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Example sentences for "detective work"

  • Detective work," I said, casually, thinking he would be less impressed if I did not seem too much interested.

  • I hate all suggestion of detective work, and deductions, and inferences.

  • That would not require very clever detective work.

  • It has always been practically impossible to get such pictures as I wanted, but this new shutter has so much greater speed than anything else ever invented before, that it is possible to use it in this sort of detective work.

  • I shouldn't mind if detective work took me more often to afternoon dances.

  • It was rather a weakness of Wingate's that he credited himself with great analytical powers, and believed he was eminently suited to detective work.

  • He began to think there were certain discomforts attached to detective work.

  • Checking passenger trains is one of the most congenial branches of detective work, and a branch which gives the young detective plenty of valuable experience.

  • Detective work required an extension of territory--A flattering endorsement by Colonel Porter--Introducing Christian Emmerich and incidentally Charles E.

  • Appointed assistant provost marshal at Fort McHenry, where I began my first experience in detective work--Somewhat a history of my early life--Ordered to execute Gordon by shooting.

  • The mystery of second-sight, of which the late Heller, the famous magician, was a master, was early thought of as a valuable adjunct to detective work.

  • It is brains, not size, which count in detective work.

  • Every country has its own system of detective work, and there are, doubtless, many who would like to know how a Scotch detective goes to work to ferret out crime.

  • Well, detective work is a sort of hunt, isn't it, Shag?

  • James Darcy had read much of Colonel Ashley's achievements in detective work, and the very magic of the name was enough to give a prisoner courage.

  • After all, detective work is the outcome of common sense plus a sort of special intuition and knowledge.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after preaching; being smaller; detective story; detective work; fine collection; great merit; has been already stated; hearken unto; him than; into his; large baking; last wrote; locomotor ataxia; mayst thou; mind upon; none will; not say; preferred before; rock salt; sandy beach; telling him; though perhaps; well trained