How to Use private investigator in a Sentence

private investigator

noun

• She hired a private investigator to follow her husband.
• As the body count piles up, the cracks in their plan emerge, while a private investigator and the police close in on them.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 7 July 2023
• The series revives the more than two-year-old case through the eyes of a new private investigator.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 6 Oct. 2021
• The lawyers hired a private investigator to help look for the student.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
• The city hired the legal firm Isaac Wiles to represent it in the shul matter, and the firm hired the private investigator to conduct the count.
  — cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021
• The Notre Dame team felt a bit like its spouse had hired a private investigator to catch it cheating.
  — Dan Egan, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Her partner-in-crime on the show, Brit Prawat, used to be a private investigator.
  — Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Aug. 2021
• Rose tries to hire a private investigator to track him down, but she's got no money and no leads on a job.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• And as time went on, the tribe would hire private investigators to look into it.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• The funds will help pay for a private investigator, rewards, posters and more.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
• Nicolas Cage stars in this neo-noir about a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films.
  — Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2022
• Robert gets from a girl named Sophie and the fact that a private investigator Alice hires can’t find anything on Robert.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
• There was no need to hire a private investigator to dig into Willis’s love life.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2024
• Did the Bruins employ a private investigator to vet Miller and his side of the story before he was signed?
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• Even a private investigator struck out in the search nearly 20 years ago.
  — Zach Murdock, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2020
• In May 2017, Rong hired a private investigator to stalk her.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
• Howard told me that Pecker had spent thousands of dollars to buy the file from a private investigator.
  — Lachlan Cartwright, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• How much of the work of a private investigator these days is Columbo versus sort of Mr. Robot?
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2020
• Swalwell hired a private investigator to track down Brooks and serve the lawsuit.
  — Marshall Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN, 27 July 2021
• For the next few weeks, the private investigator went through the motions of shadowing the daughter, supervised by the FBI.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
• The final shot of the series has spawned debate on whether Jonah killed his parents along with the private investigator.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 18 Feb. 2023
• One of her friends wanted to hire a private investigator but didn’t have enough money.
  — Hazlitt, 8 May 2024
• He was drawn to private investigator work for the action.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
• He is no longer licensed to work as a private investigator.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
• Doug hired a private investigator to find out what was going on.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Hence the hiring of the private investigator and the story about an off-the-record chat with the Saudis who agreed to take Tesla private in a handshake deal that left no other trace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Alden takes classes to become a private investigator, and Birdie may hold the key to solving one of his mysteries.
  — Josie Howell | , al, 19 Mar. 2023
• The Colemans hired a private investigator a few years ago named Jody Ponsell.
  — Justin Baxley, ajc, 3 July 2021
• The premise is pretty standard: An unlucky-in-love wedding planner is mapping out her cousin’s engagement but falls for her cousin’s ex, who’s a private investigator.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2024
• Some Trump advisers have proposed that the president-elect should move the task of conducting background checks on high-level nominees from the FBI to private investigators.
  — Tara Suter, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024