How to Use plainclothes in a Sentence

plainclothes

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• But her plainclothes look wasn’t enough to thwart one eagle-eyed fan from spotting her in the flesh.
  — Fox News, 30 Nov. 2019
• In the video, Gayle is shown standing with his back against a wall as a plainclothes officer puts his hand on Gayle's chest.
  — Kristina Sgueglia, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
• The plainclothes officer then approached the SUV and that’s when the shooting occurred.
  — Joseph A. Gambardello, Philly.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• The referees blew the play dead and stood nearby, dawdling like a pair of plainclothes detectives at a crime scene.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
• Seals was on duty and in plainclothes Tuesday when he was shot by at least one of the suspects at Bayview Cemetery.
  — Anthony Zurita, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
• The officers had worked in plainclothes police squads with Sgt.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2018
• When relatives went to look for him at the food stall, they were told he'd been picked up by plainclothes officers.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
• Soon, the person said, about a dozen plainclothes investigators converged on the scene, and the two men were led away.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2019
• The bag's owner reported the theft, and the plainclothes officers were sent to the site of the rendezvous to allegedly turn over the bag for ransom, the statement said.
  — Giada Zampano and Frances D'emilio, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2019
• Two years ago, Boldin’s cousin, Corey Jones, 31, was slain on the side of a highway by a plainclothes police officer in the wee hours of the morning while waiting for a tow truck.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• Two plainclothes officers asked him to go with them to answer questions.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• To play the part of a plainclothes police officer in a science fiction film set in the future (but filmed in the past) is to wear truly fantastic clothes.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 20 Oct. 2017
• When his police powers were somehow reinstated in 2012, he was bumped up to the plainclothes gun unit.
  — David McFadden, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
• Officers with long guns could be seen on the rooftops of buildings that lined the parade route, while plainclothes officers wandered among the crowds below.
  — James Steinbauer, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2017
• Shops saw few customers as uniformed police and plainclothes security forces walked the streets of Tehran.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• The Dubuque Police Department will resort to putting plainclothes officers in unmarked cars just to catch people in the act.
  — Aric Chokey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Berger's story begins in 1941, when a plainclothes Ustase agent arrived at his workplace and asked for him by name.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
• The man and other plainclothes officers load him inside, rushing him to the hospital.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2017
• The case has prompted the disbanding of the elite gun unit as well as other plainclothes units throughout the Baltimore Police Department.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• While taking a train to Beijing with two Swedish diplomats in early 2018, he was grabbed by plainclothes police officers.
  — Austin Ramzy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2020
• The man, who identified himself as Yang Chunlin, was bundled away by plainclothes police.
  — Eva Dou, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
• Barber, who was 16 at the time, bought a shirt and was walking out with two other teens, one of whom had joined them at the store, when a large plainclothes security officer accosted them.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2018
• The buyer was a plainclothes police officer; the seller was promptly handcuffed.
  — Jeanna Smialek, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
• But the plainclothes anti-crime officers who answered a smartphone alert for someone waving a silver gun on Wednesday didn’t know him at all, the police said.
  — Benjamin Mueller, Jan Ransom and Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Plainclothes officers blended in with guests inside the hotel.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2017
• Miller said plainclothes officers are working behind the scenes in areas where world leaders are meeting or staying.
  — Pamela Falk, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2017
• Guzman got out, ran toward an unmarked minivan with two plainclothes officers inside, and pointed a gun at one of them, police said.
  — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 26 May 2017
• When Gayle asked a lone plainclothes officer why he was being stopped, the officer did not appear to answer before uniformed backup rushed in.
  — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2020
• Manning was fatally shot by a plainclothes officer during an armed-robbery sting that fell apart.
  — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 19 June 2017
• Poole was the plainclothes detective who arrested Bates on Benjamin’s orders.
  — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Dec. 2019

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