How to Use informer in a Sentence

informer

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  • Meghan Sorensen can be reached at meghan.sorensen @globe.com informer.
    — Stefania Lugliand Meghan Sorensen, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Richie, who had agreed to be an informer with the feds, gets cold feet and tells them nothing about any of this.
    — Gavin Edwards, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2016
  • Was there anything, he was asked in 2007, worse than being an informer?
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 June 2019
  • The friendliest faces who greeted me might be informers.
    — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The compression of the two heads within the rectangle and the informer’s slice of white teeth conspire to suggest the sinister and the unsavory.
    — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The brother-in-law of one of the men was killed by militants last year, accused of being an informer for the Indian military.
    — Yasin Dar and Aijaz Hussain, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2018
  • But the informer was now ensconced in the most secure British facility in Cork, the army’s Victoria Barracks.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The protesters don’t know the allegiances of the hospital staff, and worry about informers.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • When a prison is a country, the smallest children can be unwitting informers and the most prosaic acts can be treasonous.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Feb. 2020
  • After the war, the group began policing its own country, acting as informers and enforcers for the Islamic regime.
    — CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Indeed, informers lurked in the 18th Arrondissement, just a few blocks away from the young Picasso’s studio on the Boulevard de Clichy, where the artist remained hard at work, fully focused on his art.
    — Annie Cohen-Solal, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In May 2017, shortly after his neighborhood was freed from IS, Saleh said he was sent to a local prison, tortured and beaten for four days after the neighbor labeled him an informer.
    — Hamza Hendawi, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • The jail special handling deputies cultivated and utilized a group of informers.
    — Kelly Puente, Orange County Register, 13 June 2017
  • But there are also tales of informers who pointed out potential prisoners to the police.
    — Naresh Fernandes, Quartz India, 6 Jan. 2020
  • No revolutionary could be sure whether anyone was a true comrade or a police informer.
    — Robert Service, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Rohingya informers, who may have leaked details of the Aug. 25 strikes to the Myanmar military, have been executed, according to rights groups.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Today’s young people have become both informers and self-exposers.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 29 June 2023
  • In her deft portrayal of a teenager turned reluctant informer, Ruta Sepetys makes the case that trust, coupled with selfless courage, is the key to cracking autocratic rule.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Watch it on: Netflix informer For all the consolation of shows that stick to a formula, the ones that upend generic conventions can be even more gratifying.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2020
  • These defendants are here on the strength of testimony given by a secret informer, neighbors or their own families.
    — Hamza Hendawi, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • The initial, rapid jihadi advance meant many residents were unable to flee, and townsfolk soon discovered the group had a hidden network of informers in Palmyra.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 21 May 2017
  • Over the past decade, Hamas has also executed 28 people, most of them alleged informers, after trials widely condemned as a sham.
    — Fares Akram, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
  • The terrifying teachers in her all-girl high school encourage informers and expound on the evils of overeating and unsanctioned pregnancy.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • An informer comes to tell Mr. Hayat that people are beginning to wonder about the foreigner who is asking impertinent questions.
    — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Crawford demanded jail records in 2005 that might prove Garrity was a seasoned informer – but was told by lawyers for the sheriff’s department that such records either didn’t exist or were confidential.
    — Tony Saavedra, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2017
  • In order to locate the underground bunkers the Germans made use of dogs, listening devices, and informers. German troops used long-range weapons and flamethrowers to pulverize and torch the buildings, turning it into a blanket of flame and rubble.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Still, as Steinberg narrates in grim but vivid strokes, her phone was tapped, her employers pressured into firing her, her friends and companions imprisoned or turned into informers.
    — Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The 89-year-old Bulger, who became one of the nation’s most powerful gangsters in part by being a secret FBI informer, was so badly beaten that he was left for dead and was almost unrecognizable when found on the floor of a prison corridor.
    — Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Television documentaries and news and magazine articles linked him to murders of informers and bombings that killed scores.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Bulger, who became one of the nation’s most powerful gangsters in part by being a secret FBI informer, was so badly beaten that he was left for dead and was almost unrecognizable when found on the floor of a prison corridor.
    — Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2022

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