How to Use informant in a Sentence

informant

noun

• The police were alerted to the plot by a paid informant.
• We learned the language with the help of a native informant.
• And who’s the informant who’s ratting Jen out to the feds?
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
• The next day, Phineas dropped a shopping bag through the window of an informant’s car.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• An informant told Bolles that he was paid to wiretap his home phone.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• Sirens whine in the background; informants call with tips; shots of derelict cityscapes suggest the loneliness of life on the lam.
  — Sean Paulsen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
• The informant was able to gain access to the barn where Asha was kept, according to a search warrant.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• Years later Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• Years later, Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
• In 2016, agents flipped one of the drug ring associates, who agreed to become an informant.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2023
• Inmates took bets on how long the FBI informant would survive.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• The indictment says that the scheme was foiled by a U.S. government informant.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The post alleged Leung worked as a US informant for more than three decades, beginning in 1989.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• How was that to confront him in prison and how long will his Hannibal Lecter-esque informant role last?
  — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The informant also has been in contact with at least one of the defense lawyers and at least one of the five defendants, Hernandez wrote.
  — Michael Kunzelman and Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• Riley had been working as a confidential informant for the FBI at the time.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• Nordean's attorney, Nicholas Smith, called the informant as a witness.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Coming home, Cooper discovers where his informant has spent most of the day.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 15 May 2023
• One of his co-conspirators happened to be one of my informants.
  — Seth Doane, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Police arranged to have an informant buy more pills from Comfort.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2023
• Nearly another year passed before the agency asked the informant about the bombing.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• In it, Reacher goes undercover to rescue an informant held by a foe from his past.
  — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• Comer’s roster of informants allegedly grew over the next few weeks.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
• Gupta has known the informant since at least 2016, since which time the two have discussed drug and firearms transactions, according to the affidavit by Franks.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• The messages mention other informants in Cleveland and Salt Lake City.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• The Army had at least one soldier acting as an informant, who had infiltrated the student body and was with the group that disappeared.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Surveillance footage of the incident didn’t yield any informant on the driver or license plate.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• In April 1973, Mr. Zamir’s informant said war was looming.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• These are blamed on the Bahraini opposition, but the station chief suggests that the spy’s informant, who has become a friend, was involved.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Our informant was Pablo Quisbert, an Indigenous researcher who had come over from Copacabana to join us for the day.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024