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Example sentences for "plainclothes"

Lexicographically close words:
plaids; plaie; plaied; plaies; plain; plainclothesman; plaine; plained; plainelie; plainely
  1. Then she faced about and sat still while the Rubberneck auto stopped at the flash of the badge under the coat of the plainclothes man.

  2. Still talking with the plainclothes detectives, he motioned to her violently behind his back.

  3. The Washington force had been augmented by a Baltimore contingent and squads of plainclothes men.

  4. Hands were bruised and arms twisted lit' police officers and plainclothes men.

  5. The plainclothes officers were standing on this side here.

  6. Well, during this period that you were down in the basement, the 5-minute period that you were in the basement, were you able to distinguish the plainclothes detectives from the newspaper people?

  7. Often had she told stories about the raids on hotel made by the plainclothes men.

  8. The same little sport, which the arrival of the plainclothes men had interrupted in the Rue de Laval, was beginning again in a jocular sort of spirit.

  9. Three plainclothes men got out, displaying their badges for identification.

  10. All three of the plainclothes men stepped forward in amazement.

  11. Fifteen minutes later Frazier's arrest was accomplished, and the three plainclothes men started for Albany with both criminals in their custody.

  12. The Sheriff, the County Physician and a few plainclothes sleuths are in attendance, but Norvallis is the real leader of the gang.

  13. The Directorate of State Security The Directorate of State Security (Drejtorija e Sigurimit te Shtetit--commonly abbreviated to Sigurimi) is organized into four battalions and has more plainclothes personnel than uniformed.

  14. This figure did not include the plainclothes security police, informers, or the citizens who were performing their two months of mandatory auxiliary duty attached to local police units.

  15. I know he was a plainclothes detective or FBI agent or some thing like that, but I don't know, and I told him I would be back and after lunch I would go up there.

  16. Ilya Simonov looked from the guards to the plainclothes man and back, in frustration.

  17. Afterwards, the plainclothes man and the two guards stood over him.

  18. A plainclothes man, idling a hundred feet down the street, eyed him briefly then turned his attention elsewhere.

  19. Down the street the same plainclothes man, who had been lounging there the last time he'd reported, once again took him in, then looked away.

  20. He curtly beckoned to the plainclothes man, still idling against the building a hundred feet or so up the street.

  21. The plainclothes man looked after him and muttered to the guards, "Blagonravov's hatchetman.

  22. Big footprints on the thick dust which coated the floor showed him that he was being no more thorough than Captain Strawn's brace of plainclothes detectives had been much earlier that evening.

  23. Strawn asked curiously, but as Dundee continued to stare silently at the thing he held, the older man strode to the door and relayed the order to a plainclothes detective.

  24. In the end, he wouldn't take my advice to rush every available man to the scene, but only consented to take two plainclothes men and two military police.

  25. We had arranged that Matthews and one of the military police, both armed, should stay and guard the car, while the two plainclothes men and the other military policeman, the corporal here, should accompany me to the house.

  26. In a quarter of an hour's time, a number of plainclothes policemen will be on board.

  27. The two plainclothes policemen, whose recovery was instantaneous, scrambled to their feet and dashed after him, followed by Crawshay.

  28. The other plainclothes official said, "You underrate our Secret Service, miss.

  29. We had had a plainclothes man watching Tini ever since we got to port, but without you on the inside even he might have failed.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plainclothes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.