How to Use hit man in a Sentence
hit man
noun- She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
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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 -
Despite having just been struck by a four-door sedan, the former hit man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) manages to dodge about a dozen gunshots.
— Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020 -
But Maria rejected the idea that hit men would have been after anyone in her family.
— Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
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