How to Use assassin in a Sentence

assassin

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  • John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
  • But the Bulldogs went into assassin mode in the second half.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Luke having killed him several years prior, but the assassin doesn’t know this.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The assassin is probably Olsen, who is tied up in the hayloft of Maggie’s barn.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Even now, some members of the group worship his assassin, Nathuram Godse.
    — Rhea Mogul and Swati Gupta, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow was abandoned as a child and trained as an assassin and spy.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2021
  • In John Wick, Reeves stars as the legendary assassin who has retired to marry the love of his life.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
  • That and the location of the victim’s gunshot wounds — one in the head and two in the chest — might point to a professional assassin.
    — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The terrified assassin, of course, didn’t know that, and gave up the mayor to the amused Boba and Fennec.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That said, this installment trades a little plot for a lot of action while diving deeper into the underground world of the assassins’ guild.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Some threatened to kill or have an assassin kill Murkowski and Sullivan, Johnson admitted in a plea agreement.
    — NBC News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Many of the documents relate to Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In 2016, she was killed in her home by a group of assassins, several of whom had U.S. military connections.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
  • And Zazie has been the top, most unattainable assassin in the world.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But when the time came, John refused, so the High Table sent its army of assassins.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The assassin was cornered by U.S. troops and killed at a farm in Virginia on April 26.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The cut-outs point to Stenberg’s role as an assassin named Mae in the Disney+ live-action series.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 29 May 2024
  • If the lip-sync assassin wins, a secret group vote will determine which queen gets the chop.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 May 2023
  • The action heats up quickly as the superhero stops a would-be assassin at the White House.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Rathbone tried to subdue Booth, but the assassin attacked him with a knife.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The cheery, unarmed person at the front gate couldn’t stop a heckler, let alone an assassin.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Just two months ago, Trump was shot in the right ear by a would-be assassin during a rally in Butler, Pa.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The film is based on a French graphic novel series about the life of an unnamed assassin.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Like his friend Wick, Caine got out of the assassin life under the High Table before being pulled back in.
    — Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Yes, the central gimmick of this movie (which is clever) hinges on how the agents and assassins who do the real work are the working-class stiffs who aren't plucked from the Ivy League.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But first: Pam (Anjana Vasan) is making big strides in her work as an assassin!
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • And there is the balcony at the Lorraine Motel, less than 2 miles away, where an assassin’s bullet killed King the next day and changed the future of Black life.
    — Gary Fields, ajc, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The assassins could have come up against any level of resistance to add in-universe logic back to the script.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024
  • Craig, of course, was front and center in the film as 007, while Bautista had a supporting role as Mr. Hinx, Spectre’s top assassin.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a scene in a later episode where Huey watches a Shaft movie in a theater while would-be assassins shoot up the deli where he’s supposed to be.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024

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