detective work

How To Use detective work In A Sentence

• One can only guess at the research and detective work that has gone into the bald details recorded for each piece.
• It means that our police forces are hopelessly inept when it comes to applying detective work to modern communications.
• We were puzzled by your remark that you had the standard and there is no other design, so we did a little detective work.
• Brilliant detective work with a little luck tossed in to catch the savvy killer.
• It took a lot of detective work to discover the cause of the problem.
• I think there was a lot of good police work, good detective work, the cooperation of all the agencies.
• Drawn to the subject via a footnote, McKillop did some literary detective work to uncover Deeks's story.
• Some of these medications interact in tricky ways, which requires careful listening to patients and time-consuming detective work to disentangle. Dr. Daniel Seidman: Sometimes, "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!" Is a Good Idea
• Always in these movies the defendant looks cooked, until a last minute witness shows up at the nick, spurred on by ingenious detective work.
• This reflects the excellent detective work from the CID officers at Darwen.