Examples of gumshoe in a Sentence
Noun
the couple paid a gumshoe to look for their missing son
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Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The show will star Nicolas Cage as a gumshoe version of Spider-Man in an alternate 1930s New York City.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
Alex is, at once, a proactive gumshoe and a reactive Mia-Farrow-in-Rosemary’s-Baby-type figure.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Alas, by then the cheese heiress has skipped the country, and one Mickey Finn later our gumshoe comes to consciousness aboard an eastbound ship on the Atlantic.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Noun
When the populist demagogue Willie Stark orders Burden, journalist turned gumshoe, to dig up dirt on a local judge, Burden demurs; certainly there are no skeletons in the office of the good judge.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The show will star Nicolas Cage as a gumshoe version of Spider-Man in an alternate 1930s New York City.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
Alex is, at once, a proactive gumshoe and a reactive Mia-Farrow-in-Rosemary’s-Baby-type figure.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
Alas, by then the cheese heiress has skipped the country, and one Mickey Finn later our gumshoe comes to consciousness aboard an eastbound ship on the Atlantic.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Gumshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gumshoe. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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