How to Use conspirator in a Sentence

conspirator

noun
  • 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
  • Gilead may accuse them of being co-conspirators, and possibly hang them.
    refinery29.com, 27 June 2018
  • 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
  • The charging document does not name the other conspirators, only refers to them as Fighters 1,2 and 3.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2018
  • The commanders, hoping to tamp down brewing unrest, pulled Company B off the front line and let the conspirators go unpunished.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Much of the information shared by Agri Stats and the co-conspirators was unnecessary to achieve any benefits for consumers.
    Natasha Bach, Fortune, 29 June 2018
  • The alleged conspirators combined a variety of hacking techniques to mount a highly effective campaign.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2018
  • His cause of death was proven to be from the carfentanil distributed by Shelton and other conspirators, a police investigation found.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2018
  • More malevolent is the 1865 wanted poster for conspirators in the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • One needed to be big enough to hold all that black womanhood was supposed to be; lover, cook, therapist, mama, freak, co-conspirator, messiah, savior, martyr, while never getting too big.
    Sonya Renee Taylor, SELF, 26 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • He was named in the papyrus as a chief conspirator along with Tiye and her followers.
    National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • 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
  • Braswell was name-checked in Mitchell’s testimony as a conspirator in the bribery scheme.
    Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 4 May 2022
  • The Honduran president was not charged in the case but was labeled a co-conspirator.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead of funding the bogus project, Ruffo and his co-conspirator played the stock market.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Gavin was my brother, my partner in crime (and food) and my comic conspirator.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2021
  • The company and its lawyers are working to identify co-conspirators in the alleged rustling scheme, the suit says.
    Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • In the audio clip, the conspirators discuss weapons – such as a drone, mines, RPG rockets and anti-tank rockets – which the colonels claimed to have hidden away near the Odesa highway.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 7 May 2024
  • The fact that not a single senior party official numbered among her copious conspirators beggars credulity.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024

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