Sentence examples for detective playing from inspiring English sources

She is helped by a sympathetic, if slightly reluctant ex (a detective playing second fiddle no less).

The opening-night presentation, "Written By," comes from the most fertile production company in Hong Kong, Milkyway Image, and stars Lau Ching Wan (of last year's favorite, "Mad Detective") playing a lawyer who dies in the opening reel but is brought back to life as a character in a novel by his grieving daughter (Kelly Lin).

A review by The New York Times showed that the detective played a key role in other questionable convictions.

Brenda, the bossy and single-minded homicide detective played by Kyra Sedgwick on "The Closer," got married.

In the pilot, Eddie Arlette, a New York Police Department detective played by Mark Valley ("Pasadena"), fails spectacularly.

Called "The Michael Richards Show," the comedy is about a bumbling private detective, played by Mr. Richards.

The detective played by Mr. Secor dabbled in Buddhism as well as bisexuality.

Comparisons with Saga, the Swedish detective played by Sofia Helin in The Bridge, will be inevitable.

In the film, the police detective played by Ruffalo propositions Ryan's character in a particularly forthright manner.

On "Monk," the USA Network's series about an obsessive-compulsive detective played by Tony Shalhoub, sanity is the dividing line.

Del Spooner, a brooding, wise-cracking homicide detective played with weary action-hero bravado by Will Smith, shows no such sensitivity.