How to Use gendarmerie in a Sentence

gendarmerie

noun

• 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
• 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 local gendarmerie on the scene tweeted a photo of the bus on its side, its front window smashed.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
• 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 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
• Beltrame, 44, a distinguished officer in the local gendarmerie, offered to take the hostages' place.
  — Kim Willsher, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the Timbuktu attack, the mission said five Malian security guards and a Malian contractor working for the mission were killed along with a member of the Malian gendarmerie.
  — Edith M. Lederer, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• In the area around Elbistan, north of Gaziantep, Turkish gendarmerie trucks carrying water, cookies and medicine drove supplies to the smaller villages that had yet to see the aid given to the region's bigger cities and towns.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
• 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
• About 200 of Beltrame's colleagues from the gendarmerie, a national police force, which is part of the military, attended the ceremony in Paris.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018
• In the wake of the coup attempt, the government has moved to bring the gendarmerie, a military-style police force, which participated in the plot, and the Coast Guard, under the control of the Interior Ministry, not the military.
  — Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 28 July 2016
• The sport of rapid propulsion requires the proper equipment: a good radar detector, knowledge of local gendarmerie methods, and, most important, a stealthy accomplice.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 15 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• The suspects include six F-16 pilots and four district gendarmerie commanders, the agency reported.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• Inside the gendarmerie station, Javed was met by the commander—an aristocratic-looking man with a powerful jaw—in full military uniform, enthroned behind a big wooden desk.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The office of the governor of Turkey's southern Sanliurfa region said one gendarmerie corporal and three local security personnel were killed.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2020
• There are currently around 30 cases concerning suspected radicalisation within the police force and gendarmerie.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
• The 10-person panel emphasized cooperation across divisions amid representatives from the gendarmerie, maritime forces, fire and regional security services.
  — Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024