Sentence examples for shamus from inspiring English sources
'shamus' is a valid and usable word in written English
It is often used to refer to a private detective or investigator. Example sentence: The detective donned a fedora and grabbed his magnifying glass, ready to become the hard-boiled shamus he was meant to be.
The movie is narrated by none other than Guy Noir Kevin Klinee), the stumbling, Chandleresque shamus who is the hero of one of Keillor's regular skits.
"I need to know what he saw in this waltz," says the play's dogged shamus, Dr. Katherine Brandt Jane Fondaa), a classical-music scholar who is in a race to finish her monograph before she succumbs to a motor-neuron disease.
More than 13 years and who knows how many White Russians after "The Big Lebowski," the sibling filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen are turning their attention to another brother shamus – not an Irish monk, but a fellow private investigator – for what could be their first television project.
Only when we have finished a piece of work do we know true shamus loneliness, realizing that the chase is over and that no one has been watching us but us.
The central candle, or shamus, which is used to kindle the others, is fitted with a small container of almond oil so it can actually be lighted.
Qwilleran's sidekick — in the opinion of many, the book's real star — is his intrepid, preternaturally intelligent Siamese shamus, Koko.
Shamus Khan, a sociologist at Columbia University, in New York, told me that a widely shared conviction that individual effort determines individual reward — that we are the beneficiaries of hard work and talent, rather than luck and circumstance — is one of the central underpinnings of our current social and political order.
After three years of producing pickles both classic and around the bend, like chipotle carrots and maple-bourbon bread-and-butter, Shamus Jones of Brooklyn Brine has turned part of his little factory in Gowanus into a retail shop, wide open to the street.
Shamus Khan, a sociologist at Columbia and the author of "Privilege," a book about St . Pauls, the prep school, agreed that there had been a change in the composition of the elite.
"One of the ways colleges are need-blind is they are quite literally blind to the neediest students and the conditions they're coming from," said Shamus Khan, an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University and the author of "Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School".
Only later, after years of scholarly detective work, did he decide that he had been looking at genuine art that was cleverly concealed by an ambitious and slightly frustrated animation director named Shamus Culhane.
