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Examples of gumshoe in a Sentence
Noun
the couple paid a gumshoe to look for their missing son
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Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024
Obtaining that evidence was her goal when Andrea and her coterie of clumsy gumshoes marched up to the vacation cottage.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
In Chinatown and Shampoo, gumshoe J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) and Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) end up alone.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
In Klute, Sutherland played opposite Fonda as New York gumshoe John Klute, who is hired to find a chemical company executive who has disappeared.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 20 June 2024
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Noun
In the show, Wednesday star Emma Myers (with a solid British accent!) plays a teenage gumshoe who gets to the bottom of a homicide case years earlier in a small English village in this adaptation of Holly Jackson’s popular YA novel.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2024
Obtaining that evidence was her goal when Andrea and her coterie of clumsy gumshoes marched up to the vacation cottage.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
In Chinatown and Shampoo, gumshoe J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) and Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) end up alone.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
In Klute, Sutherland played opposite Fonda as New York gumshoe John Klute, who is hired to find a chemical company executive who has disappeared.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 20 June 2024
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“Gumshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gumshoe. Accessed 20 Aug. 2024.
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