How to Use assassin in a Sentence

assassin

noun

• John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
• Meanwhile, Villanelle is ready to move on from her life of being an assassin — but can’t escape something that is such a part of her nature.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 Feb. 2022
• The challenge, Fowler writes, was to focus on the time, people, and circumstances that produced this man, rather than on the assassin himself.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2022
• A year earlier, an ex-assassin for the Sinaloa cartel was sentenced in San Diego federal court.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
• La Fabrica Nocturna produce this fantasy thriller about an assassin who can move between two worlds.
  — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• As Arthur crumbles to the ground, dying, the assassin is heard laughing creepily and can even be seen cutting his own face with the knife, presumably to make the Joker smile.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
• Almost exactly one year later, an assassin shot Robert F. Kennedy, the president’s younger brother.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 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
• When members of the team are suddenly kidnapped, the agents assemble to take down the assassin and save their own.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• The last king of Nepal, Gyanendra, was the assassin’s uncle, not his brother.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• Barry is a very good assassin who wants to be an actor and, initially, isn’t a good one.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Police soon drew a line between the assassin and spinoff Kahane groups.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• Good will, like the reign of legendary assassins, doesn't last forever.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
• After proving himself as a crunch-time assassin at Damien, Zander Jimenez scored 10 stress-free points in the blowout.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024