gendarme

noun

gen·darme ˈzhän-ˌdärm

also ˈjän-

: a member of a body of soldiers especially in France serving as an armed police force for the maintenance of public order

: police officer

Examples of gendarme in a Sentence

the senator reiterated his conviction that it is not the role of the United States to be a kind of global gendarme

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In 1897, years before fingerprinting became widespread, French gendarmes used it to identify the serial killer Joseph Vacher. —

Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020 Seeing the knife, the gendarmes arrest him; Modi is home free. —

Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024 The mainstream drifts rightward In France last week, a migrant from Cape Verde ran over and killed a gendarme. —

Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024 Suspecting skullduggery, the New Zealand squad called the local police, and gendarmes located and then detained the nearby drone operator. —

Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 24 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for gendarme