How to Use gendarme in a Sentence

gendarme

noun
  • The gunshots that hit them were fired from the van of these gendarmes.
    — Boubacar Diallo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Soutien aux policiers, gendarmes et sapeurs-pompiers qui font face avec courage.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • The man from Texas starts speaking to the giant gendarme about guns.
    — Mary Morris, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Hundreds of police and gendarmes have been mobilised to take part in the search.
    — Arion McNicoll, theweek, 15 May 2024
  • He was left alone with one gendarme, who said Traoré then assaulted him and ran.
    — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Seeing the knife, the gendarmes arrest him; Modi is home free.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Mountain guides and gendarmes from across Chamonix were mustered.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The man contacted the local gendarme, who gathered up the body and photographed it.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Two migrants said gendarmes fired on them, and multiple videos showed armed, uniformed men standing guard.
    — Lori Hinnant, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2018
  • The gendarmes watching its main highways are alert and ride new motorcycles.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • They would be returned before he was deported, the gendarmes assured him.
    — Tommy Trenchard, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Cameroonian special forces joined the convoy, and local gendarmes lined the road.
    — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • One gendarme, waving a pistol, threatened to search the refugees’ belongings.
    — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
  • 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
  • In the past, gendarmes, have often blocked roads into Algiers, without making arrests.
    — Aomar Ouali, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That includes Jan Laureys (Willem De Schryver), who never wanted to be a gendarme in the first place.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Enter Orsolya, who shows up at the door with some gendarmes and an official eviction notice and gives Ion twenty minutes to quit the premises.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • An official with the national gendarme service said her younger brother was among at least 12 people injured in the Monday night attack.
    — Bloomberg.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The strictness isn’t limited to Toubkal; there’s a new police checkpoint on the road leading into town, where gendarmes hand out tickets to people who aren’t wearing their seat belts.
    — Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 29 July 2019
  • The seven people killed in shootings included at least three from the Indigenous Kanak community and two gendarmes.
    — Sylvie Corbet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2024

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