How to Use gendarme in a Sentence

gendarme

noun
Definition of gendarmenext
Synonyms for gendarmenext
  • As one of the first gendarmes to arrive on the scene, Lt. Col.
    — Stacy Meichtry, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The gunshots that hit them were fired from the van of these gendarmes.
    — Boubacar Diallo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The man from Texas starts speaking to the giant gendarme about guns.
    — Mary Morris, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
  • They are trained by the local gendarmes to guard access to the area and bring thieves in to the authorities.
    — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
  • He was left alone with one gendarme, who said Traoré then assaulted him and ran.
    — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
  • The man contacted the local gendarme, who gathered up the body and photographed it.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • My father opened and there were three Hungarian gendarmes in front of him and ordered him to leave the house.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The fourth victim, a gendarme who stood in for a female hostage and was shot, died early Saturday.
    — Time, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Soutien aux policiers, gendarmes et sapeurs-pompiers qui font face avec courage.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • A few days after my mother’s arrest, a kind Czech gendarme brought us a message from her.
    — Zuzana Justman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The second man was apparently a gendarme in the reserves who Le Monde said had worked with Benalla in the past.
    — Elaine Ganley, Fox News, 20 July 2018
  • There were no gendarmes on Trump’s tail, no threat of violence or self-harm, no real suspense.
    — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Cameroonian special forces joined the convoy, and local gendarmes lined the road.
    — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • The gendarmes gathered the Jewish children from the schools in order to hand them over to the Nazis, who worried that the French were too enthusiastic.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
  • Francois V had indeed worked as a gendarme and a police officer, and as a town councilor in the town of Prades-le-Lez in southern France.
    — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Mountain guides and gendarmes from across Chamonix were mustered.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Each gendarme carried a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder.
    — Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • One gendarme, waving a pistol, threatened to search the refugees’ belongings.
    — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
  • The gendarmes watching its main highways are alert and ride new motorcycles.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • Two migrants said gendarmes fired on them, and multiple videos showed armed, uniformed men standing guard.
    — Lori Hinnant, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2018
  • They would be returned before he was deported, the gendarmes assured him.
    — Tommy Trenchard, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • At just this point a gendarme enters to announce the arrival of the real inspector general, who is not at all in disguise.
    — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • West German guards would sometimes wave you through; the French gendarmes, with their machineguns, were more threatening.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • An old Jewish woman with varicose veins was moving more slowly than the rest, so the gendarme thrust the bayonet into her leg, making the blood spurt.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Everyone turned to watch a group of kids rush up the steps of the walkway toward the gendarmes, hurling stones at their riot shields until the officers charged, forcing them back down.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 7 June 2017
  • There was no hope of our taking the trans-Mediterranean ferry, not without passports, but the gendarmes told us to check in every few days to see if our belongings had reappeared.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The presence of police and gendarmes will be doubled: 70 police reservists will be added, along with soldiers from the Sentinelle force that combs French cities against terror attacks.
    — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In the past, gendarmes, have often blocked roads into Algiers, without making arrests.
    — Aomar Ouali, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But the boy and her great-grandmaman aside, most of the human characters are stock figures like the bumbling gendarme and the sweet-tempered shop owners who help keep Paras well-fed and out of police custody.
    — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
  • At the gendarmes’ base, a laconic officer took down the details of the robbery, seemingly oblivious of a large butcher knife that lay on his desk, dripping blood.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024

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