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Plainclothes in a sentence
Plainclothes meaning
Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.
Using Plainclothes
- The main meaning on this page is: Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.
- In the example corpus, plainclothes often appears in combinations such as: plainclothes police, plainclothes officers, by plainclothes.
Context around Plainclothes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plainclothes
- In this selection, "plainclothes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, either, forces, follow, police, officers and policemen stand out and add context to how "plainclothes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a plainclothes officer with and allegedly some plainclothes police have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plainclothes" sits close to words such as aditi, aegon and aerobics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plainclothes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Typically detectives and other plainclothes officers have not. (8 words)
Allegedly some plainclothes police have taken people off the street for discussing the pandemic. (14 words)
District security forces, uniformed police, and plainclothes officers dragged protesters away from the embassies. (14 words)
The campaign spokesman said: “When plainclothes policemen from the C Division of the Kogi State Police Command manning the hotel stopped the suspect to allow a search of the items, two other passengers of the tricycle suddenly took to their heels. (41 words)
Terry Graham (41) was on his way to the toilets with the bag, having been offered it “because of the day that was in it”, when he was spotted by plainclothes officers, a court heard. (35 words)
A plainclothes officer with the Toronto Police Service’s Drug Squad has been charged after another Toronto area police service alleged he was found driving while impaired and in possession of illicit drugs. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
That’s remained shadowy and hasn’t really come to light, with many insisting that they were either plainclothes police acting out of official channels or paramilitaries.
The campaign spokesman said: “When plainclothes policemen from the C Division of the Kogi State Police Command manning the hotel stopped the suspect to allow a search of the items, two other passengers of the tricycle suddenly took to their heels.
Typically detectives and other plainclothes officers have not.
Video from Iran shows a woman – reportedly a protesting mother of girl poisoned by chemical attack on a school in Tehran today – being viciously attacked/arrested by IR forces/plainclothes agents.
Video showed the woman going up to Salwan Momika and spraying white powder at him before she was intercepted by plainclothes police who led her away.
A plainclothes officer with the Toronto Police Service’s Drug Squad has been charged after another Toronto area police service alleged he was found driving while impaired and in possession of illicit drugs.
On Dec. 21, 2023, ABC7 News was invited to follow plainclothes officers during one of many drug surveillance operations in the two neighborhoods where drug dealing is rampant.
Police personnel will be stationed in plainclothes to deter crimes such as theft and chain snatching.
Separately, Naqvi announced that 564 protestors, including 11 plainclothes personnel from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police, have been arrested during the protests.
Terry Graham (41) was on his way to the toilets with the bag, having been offered it “because of the day that was in it”, when he was spotted by plainclothes officers, a court heard.
The officers, members of a plainclothes tactical team operating on the West Side, stopped Reed last month as he drove through Humboldt Park because he allegedly was not wearing a seatbelt.
Allegedly some plainclothes police have taken people off the street for discussing the pandemic.
A narcotics investigation was underway in the area, involving a plainclothes police officer and an unmarked car.
District security forces, uniformed police, and plainclothes officers dragged protesters away from the embassies.
He made it sound as if there were up to seven fellow Ottawa officers, a combination of plainclothes officers and uniformed members.
He was arrested by the Glendale police in 2003, accused of brandishing a handgun at a plainclothes detective who was tailing his cousin, and acquitted after two trials.
He wasn’t able to identify men in plainclothes spotted in the hospital last week who the politician’s allies said were law enforcement and security service agents.
King, who was in hiding, was arrested by plainclothes police on Sunday when they visited the shop which he operates in Mahdia.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said people wearing face masks or talking about the coronavirus are liable to be arrested by plainclothes police.
Plainclothes police officers got involved in the argument but Anagnostakis claimed that instead of being taken to a hospital like they asked, Maguire and another defendant were taken into custody.
Common combinations with plainclothes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- plainclothes police 10×
- plainclothes officers 10×
- by plainclothes 7×
- in plainclothes 4×
- plainclothes officer 3×
- of plainclothes 3×
- and plainclothes 2×
- two plainclothes 2×
- as plainclothes 2×