How to Use gendarmerie in a Sentence

gendarmerie

noun
  • But the Bezaris have the gendarmerie on their side.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Thomas took a 3-year leave of absence from the gendarmerie in order to work on his project.
    — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2020
  • But the driver sensed something wrong and brought him to the gendarmerie police.
    — Nancy Ing, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But few units of the army or gendarmerie security forces are yet able to stand on their own feet.
    — Sebastian Shukla, Tim Lister and Clarissa Ward, CNN, 27 June 2019
  • The local gendarmerie on the scene tweeted a photo of the bus on its side, its front window smashed.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Dressed in a dark suit and a tie, he was surrounded by young gendarmerie officers looking at their phones.
    — Kaya Genç, The Dial, 9 June 2026
  • The gendarmerie, special forces, and other security forces were all here.
    — Suzan Fraser, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Bored gendarmerie officers in the press room joked about the Galatasaray soccer game the previous night.
    — Kaya Genç, The Dial, 9 June 2026
  • Since his arrest in April, he had been held in a cell in the barracks of the Vatican’s gendarmerie.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 23 June 2018
  • The gendarmerie—the Turkish army’s law-enforcement arm—should have records of any bodies found, as well as photos of the corpses.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Maddy Scheurer, a spokeswoman for the French gendarmerie, echoed that message.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2020
  • After a night at the gendarmerie, he was sent to a nearby prison that was notorious for overcrowding, drug use and suicide.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The gendarmerie gave way to an ordinary constabulary force, and partial freedom of the press was granted.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The gendarmerie officers kept a close eye on those seated in court, checking that no one was using their smartphone to film İmamoğlu.
    — Kaya Genç, The Dial, 9 June 2026
  • Beltrame, 44, a distinguished officer in the local gendarmerie, offered to take the hostages' place.
    — Kim Willsher, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Since then, the paramilitary gendarmerie and the police have also broken ranks with Rajoelina.
    — CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The Vatican said in a statement that its police force, known as the gendarmerie, had arrested Italian Msgr.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Beltrame, 44, was a lieutenant colonel in the gendarmerie, a part of the French military that focuses on domestic policing.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Units from across Turkey’s armed forces, including the air force, the army and the gendarmerie, a military-style police force, worked simultaneously.
    — Tim Arango, Ceylan Yeginsu and Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 18 July 2016
  • The older girl had been 5 when the two were taken away by the gendarmerie, and Fréderique’s memory was of a mother standing there motionless, with a blank expression on her face.
    — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Anadolu Agency said gendarmerie police and special operations teams detained an undisclosed number of Uighurs during the raids.
    — Dusan Stojanovic, Orange County Register, 5 Jan. 2017
  • France will deploy more than 13,000 police and gendarmerie officers to ensure security in the summit area just over the border.
    — ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • France will deploy more than 13,000 police and gendarmerie officers to ensure security in the summit area just across the border.
    — ABC News, 14 June 2026
  • The suspects include six F-16 pilots and four district gendarmerie commanders, the agency reported.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The country’s gendarmerie, its child protective services and the Ministry of Justice are involved in the inquiry, according to an official close to the case.
    — Mark Banchereau, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The former diplomat, who served most recently at the Holy See’s embassy in Washington, was being held in a cell in the gendarmerie’s barracks, the statement said.
    — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2018
  • No doubt, this length of service gave Gasnier the moral authority in the community to carry out his bold conspiracy against the occupiers; even the local gendarmerie went along with it.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Meanwhile, the government did put forth some security sector reforms, including the creation of a rural paramilitary gendarmerie force.
    — Ralph H. Espach, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2014
  • France has announced the deployment of more than 13,000 police and gendarmerie officers to ensure security in the summit area.
    — Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
  • The Japanese, however, responded with brutal repression, unleashing their gendarmerie and army and navy units to suppress the demonstrations.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026

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