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private eye

NOUN
  1. someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

How To Use private eye In A Sentence

  • These, however, come under the heading of COLEMANBALLS, the long-running Private Eye column which records the goofs of sports commentators.
  • ‘What a very boring man, obsessed with the first world war,’ he says, all self-mockery, behind his cluttered desk in Private Eye's defiantly unmodernised Soho townhouse.
  • They get their leads from tips sent in by readers and I have just had an hon mensh (as Private Eye puts it) which is an honour indeed! Archive 2004-08-01
  • As much as I love fictional private eyes, Laura Lippman's In Big Trouble, featuring 30-ish rookie gumshoe Tess Monaghan, is definitely not my type of book. In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman: Book summary
  • James Stewart plays Scottie, an acrophobic private eye who receives an unusual assignment: to follow Madeleine (Kim Novak), the wife of an old friend, who is drifting around San Francisco in a dazed funk. Vertigo: No 3
  • And the show went on and the private eye finally solved the murder, leaving televiewers a little perplexed.
  • He is an independent minded and principled man, who is very different from most private eye characters.
  • The private eye had found two stashes of drugs but none of the material that his employer wanted to locate.
  • He has been on the editorial staff of "Private Eye" since 1963.
  • Not all readers of Tokyo Weekender will be aware of the existence of a satirical British fortnightly called Private Eye.
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