Sentence examples of "detective" in English

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Translations: all5 detektiv1 other translations4

The detective surprised the truth from the waitress. Den Detektiv überraschte die Wahrheitsliebe der Aufwartefrau.

The man turned out to be a private detective. Der Mann stellte sich als Privatdetektiv heraus.

He occasionally reads detective novels. Ab und zu liest er Krimis.

She described him as a detective. Sie beschrieb ihn als einen Kriminalbeamten.

One of the clichés of each detective story is that the victim has obviously been hit "with a blunt object". Es gehört zu den Klischees jedes Krimis, dass das Opfer natürlich "mit einem stumpfen Gegenstand" erschlagen wurde.

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