7 sentences with 'detective'
Example sentences and phrases with the word detective and other words derived from it.
• « If you have a disease that you think doctors are misdiagnosing or not taking seriously, become your own medical detective. You may be able to provide the clues to solving your conundrum. »
• « The possibility that Ótzi came from the south was further confirmed by the detective work of Sigmar Bortenschlager, a botanist from Innsbruck. »
• « During his early years as a culinary detective, he had the wrong idea of his audience. "I thought I was writing for amateurs," he says, "because I assumed that professional cooks already knew all this. But, as scores of thank-you letters attest, many chefs simply trusted what he had taught them. With his help, they finally distinguished what works from what doesn't in the kitchen, and they understood why. »
• « The crime had been committed in Monterey. But the detective considered other facts: Virginia induced Deana to buy a policy from an insurance company in San Diego; and it was in San Diego that she purchased the drug Elavil. »
• « The detective submitted Deana's 200-page murder file to the San Diego district attorney's office. The folder ended up on the desk of Luis Aragon, a prosecutor famous for his methodical investigations and impassioned courtroom pleadings. »
• « In 1985 he published a tribute to the greats of the detective genre: Chandler and Hammett. The book was called »