Synonym: investigator, police detective, tec. Similar words: protective, detect, objective, perspective, collective, effectively, respectively, effectiveness. Meaning: [-tɪv] 
n. 1. a police officer who investigates crimes 2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public.
n. 1. a police officer who investigates crimes 2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public. 
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(61) He's one of the scriptwrit - ers on a popular TV detective series.
(62) The detective changed his holiday dates when his flight was brought forward and it now clashed with the trial.
(63) She raked out a detective story and lent it to her friend.
(64) The detective tried to pin the murder on the accused man.
(65) Her new detective series will be her debut on the small screen.
(66) We are going to have to do some detective work on this.
(67) The detective gives a false colour to this whole business.
(68) "I think we have a shadow on our tail, " muttered the detective.
(69) Leonard takes Carver-style dirty realism and fuses it with the pace of a detective story.
(70) The detective tried to reason out how the thief had escaped.
(71) The detective was trying to winkle information out of her.
(72) She ran out of the shop[Sentencedict.com], hotly pursued by the store detective.
(73) The detective found fresh footprints in the mud next to the victim.
(74) He looked out some detective story books for his friend.
(75) She's the author of three detective novels under the moniker of Janet Neel.
(76) The detective has to discover the murderer by logical deduction.
(77) After a lot of detective work, I managed to find out where he was living.
(78) Her detective stories were written under the name of Kramer.
(79) The film stars Kathleen Turner as the hard-boiled detective of Sarah Paretsky's novel.
(80) The detective turned up some new clues to the case.
(81) He enlisted the help of a private detective in his search for the truth.
(82) Joan Smith's detective stories are a cut above the rest.
(83) A private detective was hired to conduct the investigation .
(84) She hired a private detective to find out if her husband was having an affair.
(85) Sherlock Holmes has nothing on you you're a real detective.
(85) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
(86) He has been churning out detective stories for more than ten years.
(87) Kinsey Millhone, leading private detective of Santa Teresa, California.
(88) He was accompanied by a Detective Constable.
(89) The Mystery of Morse ... Investigating the great detective.
(90) Michael is a private detective and an aspiring writer.
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