How to Use private eye in a Sentence

private eye

noun

• Was the victim, an out-of-town private eye, killed by a bear or a man?
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• The old private eye office was maybe 600 square feet in size.
  — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• Moura sat down with the private eyes who had been working the case for nearly a decade.
  — CBS News, 6 July 2019
• Tell me about the creation of the private eye Frank Burly, the lead character in all but two of your novels.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 2 May 2021
• The private eye drove to Black Earth — about 70 miles west of Watertown — to talk with the waitresses.
  — Gina Barton, jsonline.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• What Bardo learned from a private eye, stalkers can now find with a click.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• His brother told them that Uman was in the Tennyson doing private eye work.
  — Lawrence Mower, miamiherald, 26 Jan. 2018
• Also, my second ex is a private eye and owes me a favor.
  — Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
• But his tenacious and loopy ex-wife, the private eye Fiona (Gordon), could foil their master plan.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2024
• In the era of the heroic private eye, when cops worked in concert with them and often deferred to them, few loomed larger than Burns.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• Roundtree was best known for his portrayal of private eye John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, leading him to be known as the first Black action hero.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• No private eye boils harder than this vintage tough guy.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• Starring Gene Hackman as a private eye hired to track down a teenager, played by Melanie Griffith.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Carmack hired a private eye last year to follow and record the mayor’s movements away from city hall.
  — Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2019
• John Oates is proud of his time as one half of the musical duo Hall & Oates, but these days his private eyes are looking forward, not back.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 27 Dec. 2023
• Both characters were private eyes, and Blessing's could shrink in size to six inches.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Dec. 2017
• In this turn, kick-ass private eye Cass must find a missing teenage girl in the middle of a Midwestern winter before the Bad Guys find her.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 July 2021
• All the Chandler books are great, but there’s something about the private eye that’s very similar to the comedian.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• Vlautin recounted in his private eye-like office in St. Johns.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2021
• The plot starts with a familiar refrain: Woman walks into private eye’s office and wants a killing solved.
  — cleveland, 2 Aug. 2021
• If there was ever a better private eye novel written than this one ...
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
• Qualley will play a private eye, Plaza will star as a mysterious woman and Evans will portray the leader of a cult.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2024
• Encyclopedia Brown was an 11-year-old private eye who worked out of his garage, and the kids from his neighborhood could come and hire him for a quarter.
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Verlander and Upton met while filming a commercial a few years ago and were unable to keep their romance out of the private eye.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2017
• Los Angeles, Reckless centers on a private eye called Ethan Reckless who’ll take care of problems … for a price.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020
• That's where a private eye working for Kerri discovered the couple.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 4 July 2020
• Since then, Parks has dated casually, but she's mostly kept her romances away from the private eye.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• The private eye told Doug that Ashley was seeing another man and in November 2019, Doug filed for divorce.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Armstrong is not a cop or a private eye but a pest removal specialist who once served hard time for feeding the hand of a poacher to an alligator.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
• He was intrigued by the private eye character, envisioning the role as a Sydney Greenstreet type with a Panama suit and hat.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024