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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Liu plays Shang-Chi, a skilled martial artist, who has been trained as an assassin since childhood.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow was abandoned as a child and trained as an assassin and spy.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2021
• 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
• If anything, the assassin is being treated by some as a hero.
  — Arthur E Palamara, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
• The actor and martial arts master plays Caine, a blind assassin who uses advanced hearing to beat-up bad guys in creative and brutal ways, as well as - what else? - a cane.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Jan 2025