The boss

Usage examples of superintendent.

I promised to follow his advice, and I then paid a visit to the superintendent of police.

He looked about curiously for the amazingly lifelike statuette that the superintendent had so enjoyed displaying and was pleased to find the graceful figure prominent on a bookshelf to the right.

Parker, the superintendent at El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico, was only too happy to talk.

Less than ten days earlier, a martinet of a Chief Commissioner, who did not approve of inspectors of the old school, had asked him to resign--to retire early, as he more elegantly put it--on the pretext of some rash act the Superintendent was supposed to have committed.

If that martinet of a Chief Commissioner could see Maigret now, he would probably have accused him of doing a job unworthy of a superintendent.

The mayor, the superintendent of schools, the director of the public library, newspaper personalities, and our esteemed meteorologist, of course.

And on the afternoon that Charmian and I climbed the two-thousand-foot pali and looked our last upon the Settlement, the superintendent, the doctors, and the mixture of nationalities and of diseased and nondiseased were all engaged in an exciting baseball game.

Campion, Superintendent Luke, and Detective Sergeant Picot from the Barrow Road station, in whose division they were not operating, were listening to Miss Rich.

Detective Superintendent Sandy Galloway was halfway down his postprandial glass of Gaol Ila.

For the fourteenth time Morse found himself re-appraising the quirkily contradictory character that was Chief Superintendent Strange.

The response from the second man, whom Sanglier introduced as Superintendent Bruno Siemen, seconded from the organized crime bureau of the Bundeskriminalamt, was almost as obsequious and Claudine guessed Poulard had briefed the German while they waited outside.

Wyck had already returned to the School House, leaving word with the police that he would be grateful for a word with the Superintendent when he had finished with Mr Semple and Mr Kay.

The possible connection between the murder and the poison-pen outbreak was remarked with commendable speed and Sergeant Throstle found himself seconded to a murder squad to which he did not properly belong, under the leadership of Superintendent Gravesend, an officer who delighted in being called dynamic when his activities were noticed by the press.

Here was a superintendent apologizing for his actions while a mere warehouseman sat on top of a forklift truck and shouted at him.

Miss Effie Winters and here, although I can well understand his motive, Superintendent Hallicks allowed me to go into the house and talk to her before he had told me of the result of his excavation of the contents of the punt.