How to Use assassin in a Sentence

assassin

noun

• John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
• Pitt and Jolie met on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the 2005 movie in which the two played married assassins.
  — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
• And Zazie has been the top, most unattainable assassin in the world.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2022
• The assassin settled down in Athens and hoped that the past would leave him alone.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2020
• The pint-sized assassin pulls a gun out of her fuzzy heart throw pillow and gets to work.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 Feb. 2025
• But what if the assassin loses her nerve and can’t do it?
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2020
• The is is a three-way fight: Maya vs Clint/Kate vs ninja assassin.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• But when the time came, John refused, so the High Table sent its army of assassins.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
• Girl takes out a Russian assassin with a single blow to the head.
  — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The assassin is probably Olsen, who is tied up in the hayloft of Maggie’s barn.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
• In it, Crow, unmasked, appears to Zavala briefly right as a Psion assassin is about to kill him.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Moments like that, and the future ones, were lost when a 24-year-old assassin named Sirhan Sirhan took it all away.
  — CBS News, 12 Dec. 2021
• 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 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
• 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
• Abby pins her assassin’s hand to a windowsill with a steak knife.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
• 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
• My interpretation of the video is that the boy is an assassin who was hired to kill the singer, Mandarine.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2021
• But the Bulldogs went into assassin mode in the second half.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• 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
• So Lawrence pulled out a second pistol and—as Jackson rushed at the would-be assassin with his cane—pulled the trigger again.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Reeves is John Wick, but that doesn't mean that the world that is currently being built around the famed assassin doesn't have others that could act as de facto John Wick.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
• But Pikachu is breaking down barriers far beyond Pallet Town; the beloved rosy-cheeked assassin hates all boundaries.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 6 Mar. 2025