How to Use gendarme in a Sentence

gendarme

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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 director of the national gendarme service is meeting Sunday in Carcassonne with the widow of Lt.
  — Fox News, 25 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024