How to Use double agent in a Sentence

double agent

noun

• He was secretly working as a double agent for the Americans during the war.
• The artist is playing a risky role here, that of double agent.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• The Refuge The Refuge gets extra points for being a double agent.
  — azcentral, 18 Feb. 2018
• Mark had urged her to play the double agent, using Fred in return.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Was the leader of the Mongols motorcycle gang a double agent for the feds?
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• Skripal was a double agent who sold secrets to Britain.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• But the official was a double agent working for the FBI, the department said.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• Airwolf is the same way... except in Episode 5, when the Lady picks up a Russian double agent along with his wife and their child.
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• Philby’s been identified as a double agent and Elliott’s sent to Beirut to bring him home.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• He has also been charged with money laundering based on bribes made to the double agent.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2022
• But there was one thing Burgess didn't share with his new friend: his true identity as a double agent for the Soviets.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
• His work as a double agent eventually led to his death.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2023
• Skripal was a double agent who betrayed Russia by spying for the West.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• In the summer, Vladimir Putin was asked about the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter last year in Britain.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• And a misstep during the chase, the recruitment of a double agent, led to one of the bloodiest days in the agency’s history.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Buchanan-Dineen’s work as a double agent brought her no benefits.
  — Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
• Mr Skripal is a former Russian spy who was exposed as a double agent.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• In addition to being a double agent, the captain is biracial, half French and half Vietnamese.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• Kuper, who interviewed the double agent in 2012, claims that Blake felt no remorse for his actions.
  — Simon Kuper, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
• It’s not as though Roe was anti-Trump, or a secret Democratic double agent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• So when you were first cast, did showrunner Angela or anyone give you Dante’s entire arc and all the info in terms of him being a double agent?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Former Russian spy and double agent Sergei Skripal, the victim of a nerve agent attack in England.
  — Fox News, 22 July 2018
• Skripal is a former double agent working against the Kremlin.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
• Yet Willard comes to believe Kurtz was correct to believe all four were double agents working for the Communists.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• Those relations have been in a free fall since the nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain on March 4.
  — Author: Anton Troianovski, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2018
• In 1944, a double agent working for the Japanese had turned her in, identifying her as a friend of the resistance.
  — Peter Eisner, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, Gus coerces Nacho to do his bidding under the threat of killing his father, forcing him to act as a double agent.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Apr. 2022
• This is the moment when Payton realizes Astrid is a double agent feeding dirt to Hadassah.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
• The teaser shows an assassin attempting to take out Ross, which Wilson quickly thwarts before fleeing as more double agents enter the fray.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 12 July 2024
• The mission relied on false information passed by double agents, fake wireless traffic and dummy units.
  — Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024