How to Use hit man in a Sentence

hit man

noun

• She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
• There was a harpist, a Mafia hit man and a cowboy named Theodore.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 5 May 2020
• First-rate steaks in a room that’s darker than a hit man’s soul.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss and others meet their fates over the course of two days.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
• Neeson plays Alex Lewis, a hit man who is very good at his job.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
• On June 12, the associate told Slater that the hit man had killed both the sister and her husband.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
• The hit man was the mob that attacked him and his fellow officers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• Locked up for armed robbery, police say, Paul Bond hatched a plan: hire a hit man to kill the victim.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 13 July 2018
• Just a friendly reminder that Tim Labesis went to prison for hiring a hit man to kill his wife.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• Six days later, the admin replied, telling Sasser that, feeling the job was too risky, the hit man had waived off.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• If the virus hits men harder than women, health care systems will see, test, and count more men.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 3 Mar. 2020
• Irvin Edge, who hired a hit man to kill his business partner in Daviess County.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2019
• Vito was killed by a hit man, leaving Nicolò more power and, with it, the drive to avenge his father’s death.
  — Barbie Nadeau, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2022
• Jason dropped out of medical school and went to work for Sonny as a hit man.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
• Using his street smarts, Mundo would pretend to hire a hit man.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2020
• Mundo offered to get involved and hire the hit man himself.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 20 July 2019
• In the movie, hit man Shane Stant bungles his way through the attack, breaking a locked glass door with his head to escape and drive off.
  — Sarah Caldwell, Cosmopolitan, 17 Jan. 2018
• In selecting the hit man to whack Jimmy Hoffa, The Mafia don chose his very best offer.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• The Big Lebowski begins with a hit man urinating on our hero's rug.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2019
• Avila, a drama which tells the tale of a hit man who struggles with personal demons.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 11 May 2018
• There was an attack carried out on January 6, and a hit man sent them.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 27 July 2021
• There was an attack carried out on January 6th, and a hit man sent them.
  — Cassidy McDonald, CBS News, 28 July 2021
• Image In the movie, Powell’s faux hit man adopts a dozen personas using wigs and accents.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• De Niro plays a hit man who works closely Hoffa in the film in release at select theaters.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
• The couple survived, but later that year the restaurateur hired a hit man to kill the husband, whose body was found in a forest in Tamil Nadu, the court heard.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 18 July 2019
• It’s been nearly a decade since a 28-year-old Jennifer Pan was sentenced to life in prison for hiring hit men to kill her parents.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
• In New York City, a former tour-bus driver fed up with noisy parties across the hall allegedly sought help from a hit man.
  — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
• The hit man marketplace is like any other auction site.
  — CBS News, 10 Apr. 2021
• During the 1980s, capturing the elder Matar became a top priority for the Libyan regime, which sent hit men abroad to find him.
  — Robert F. Worth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2017
• In his latest film, Hit Man, Powell stars as a professor who moonlights as a fake hit man in police stings.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024