policier
Americannoun
plural
policiersExample Sentences
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Donnie Wahlberg stars in a spinoff of the perennial policier “Blue Bloods.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
The novel has Banville’s name on it, but it is also a classic policier in the Benjamin Black mode.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020
France’s Arnaud Desplechin with “Oh Mercy!,” a policier set, as many of his recent films have been, in his birthplace of Roubaix;
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019
As a Harry Brandt novel, “The Whites” is more of a policier than Price’s previous fiction—more plot-driven and less deeply engaged by the anthropology of its urban communities.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2015
“This,” said Dr. Constantine, “is more wildly improbable than any roman policier I have ever read.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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