private eye in English

noun
1
a private investigator.
Jack's a hard-boiled private eye who narrates the entire film in voice-over, and who finds himself investigating an ancient Egyptian cult that worships chainsaws.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "private eye" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "private eye", or refer to the context using the word "private eye" in the English Dictionary.

1. 3 " Private Eye " is a satirical magazine.

2. Honest-to-God private eye, consults in film, TV.

3. His college Classmate, Bill Marshall, is a South Florida private eye.

4. 21 ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.

5. A former friend of the Caricaturist Ralph Steadman, Scarfe was an early contributor to the scurrilous magazine Private Eye during the 1960s and 1970s, and also created illustrations for The Daily Sketch , The Evening Standard and Punch magazine.

6. ‘The closest thing to a Blot on the Private Eye editor's escutcheon seems to be his failure to seek planning permission for alterations to his 16th century timber-framed home.’ ‘It is an indelible part of his CV, a Blot on a distinguished public career, a piquant episode for the more mischievous obituarists eventually to recount.’

7. ‘The closest thing to a Blot on the Private Eye editor's escutcheon seems to be his failure to seek planning permission for alterations to his 16th century timber-framed home.’ ‘It is an indelible part of his CV, a Blot on a distinguished public career, a piquant episode for the more mischievous obituarists eventually to recount.’