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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

  • I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals.
  • Private eye bin bagged A PRIVATE detective was yesterday fined £150 for stealing a national newspaper executive's rubbish.
  • As he was a subscriber to Private Eye, one of my replies was a totally off the wall advert in PE which descibed us in a manner only he would recognise - or so I thought. GSOH
  • That enormous logistical inconvenience guaranteed that few people beyond private eyes and document retrieval companies -- working for paying clients -- would crosscheck and ferret out the revealing information public records yield. Kathy McManus: Little-Understood Responsibilities in Navigating Online Criminal Records
  • At photo opportunities or on walkabouts, he seemed to see a Private Eye cover picture in every handshake or pram.
  • If the rumours that have found their way into Private Eye are to be believed, The Observer Music Monthly might not be much longer for the news-stand: there's a predicition that it'll be going the way of all woodpulp come March.
  • Legendary San Francisco private eye Hal Lipset and five fellow gumshoes have an offer that may fit snug as a glove.
  • His persona there is what I suppose you would call roguish, impish, twinkling or some similarly emetic term and he simply cannot afford to get Private Eye involved in anything remotely controversial or interesting because of the danger that his mainstream audience would drop him as fast as Gerald Ratner's customers dropped him if they found out that he was mixed in in any real world nastiness like proper investigative journalism. Iain Dale's Diary
  • Did they hire a private eye to wreak havoc on the life of the harasser?
  • Reporting from Beijing -- The private eyes in China's most famous detective agency rarely sleep, are relentless in pursuing their prey and can put Interpol and Homeland Security to shame.
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