How to Use conspirator in a Sentence

conspirator

noun
  • The avowed co-conspirator in the scheme has known Sanders since both were in grade school.
    Mike Hendricks and Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Caesar wasn’t able to speak to the conspirators who stabbed him in the back.
    Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The hope was to inhabit the world the way Woody Allen did, as both conspirator and judge.
    Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Some wore masks of Guy Fawkes, the British conspirator.
    Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018
  • There would be a high risk that a conspirator would tip off the feds and the spies would get arrested.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the co-conspirator in the Marathon bombings and a friend of the Waltham victims.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The travel ban would not have stopped the conspirators from coming to the United States.
    Lisa Rose, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Even Hans Hübner, one of Hess’ co-conspirators at the time, told me he had no idea about how to reach him.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired, 18 Dec. 2019
  • He has been named as a co-conspirator in the murders of Joshua, Tylee and Tammy Daybell.
    NBC News, 6 Aug. 2021
  • He and his co-conspirator were arrested when the ruse fell apart.
    Matthew Mosk, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Their goal is to get the news media to negate that frame — and negate the conspirators who are propagating that frame.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Both were supplied by Lesslie's co-conspirators, who were not named in court records.
    Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • He was named in the papyrus as a chief conspirator along with Tiye and her followers.
    National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • The trial of the five 9/11 conspirators had been stuck in legal delays for almost a decade.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 31 July 2024
  • That year, a man walked into a bank with a bomb locked onto his neck; the F.B.I. was led on a wild-goose chase by the conspirators in order to remove it.
    New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • Jackson said the occupant of the apartment will not be charged, but any co-conspirator of the slain suspect’s could face charges.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The two get fairly equal screen time, and Ant-Man/Scott’s business partner and co-conspirator Luis gets in on the action too.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 July 2018
  • Braswell was name-checked in Mitchell’s testimony as a conspirator in the bribery scheme.
    Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 4 May 2022
  • Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer have charming roles as the woman's friends and co-conspirators in a plot to save the creature.
    Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Temetan and his co-conspirators would then use the counterfeit passports to retrieve the funds from the bank accounts.
    Brooke A. Lewis, Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The Honduran president was not charged in the case but was labeled a co-conspirator.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The list goes on and on, and includes co-conspirators, such as generations of Democrats like the Clintons who talked tough on crime to get votes.
    Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 18 May 2018
  • By now John was convinced that James was the Oz behind the curtain, an evil conspirator who had turned John’s own children against him.
    Ian Frisch, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
  • By the time the man's colleague stepped outside the restaurant, Patel and his co-conspirators were gone, the documents say.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Serena and her new co-conspirators, June and Nick, watch on as Cushing is carried away in the Eyes’ black car.
    refinery29.com, 30 May 2018
  • On their way out of the house, the unidentified co-conspirator shot another victim through the chest.
    Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • This will allow your co-worker to see you as an ally, or even a co-conspirator.
    Alicia Montgomery, Quartz at Work, 8 July 2020
  • Payne and an unnamed co-conspirator were employees at the MVA Largo branch.
    Ngan Ho and Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The foiling of the plot is now celebrated with fireworks, bonfires, and the burning of effigies of Guy Fawkes—all to symbolize the capture and punishment of the conspirators.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Austin’s alleged conspirators have been behind bars for more than five years, but until recently Austin’s identity and whereabouts had been unknown.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024

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