How to Use informant in a Sentence

informant

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  • The police were alerted to the plot by a paid informant.
  • We learned the language with the help of a native informant.
  • The tarp was covering the windows and walls from the floor to the ceiling, the informant claimed.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
  • After the arrest, two of the DEA informants involved in the sting were murdered.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • In the absence of children or grandchildren, cousin Dan Moody Jr. was the informant.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Any truth to the rumors that Sam Vidlak is an undercover informant for Jonathan?
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Among them were an informant who became second-in-command of a militia and an undercover agent who offered to provide explosives.
    — Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • During his crime spree, Bulger also acted as an FBI informant, which many believe led to his prison death.
    — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The victims included an underage girl and a police informant, the DOJ said.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • That may be an electronic intercept or information provided by a human informant in a foreign country.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Crucially, Dodd-Frank added a financial incentive to the sometimes-risky practice of becoming an informant.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • And who’s the informant who’s ratting Jen out to the feds?
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The next day, Phineas dropped a shopping bag through the window of an informant’s car.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The warrant states the informant went to Anderson's South 39th Street home on the night of March 5.
    — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
  • But the service had one key informant — a man given the code name Shaul.
    — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • An informant told Bolles that he was paid to wiretap his home phone.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Sirens whine in the background; informants call with tips; shots of derelict cityscapes suggest the loneliness of life on the lam.
    — Sean Paulsen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
  • The informant was able to gain access to the barn where Asha was kept, according to a search warrant.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • That night, Power’s informant got a text: The boxes are ready for pickup on the porch.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • So the agent set up a meeting with his informant who had once shared a prison cell with Jennifer's boyfriend.
    — Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
  • Years later Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Years later, Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In 2016, agents flipped one of the drug ring associates, who agreed to become an informant.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The teenage murderer who cut out part of an informant’s tongue.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • Inmates took bets on how long the FBI informant would survive.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The indictment says that the scheme was foiled by a U.S. government informant.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The post alleged Leung worked as a US informant for more than three decades, beginning in 1989.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
  • How was that to confront him in prison and how long will his Hannibal Lecter-esque informant role last?
    — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The informant also has been in contact with at least one of the defense lawyers and at least one of the five defendants, Hernandez wrote.
    — Michael Kunzelman and Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Riley had been working as a confidential informant for the FBI at the time.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023

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