How to Use saboteur in a Sentence

saboteur

noun

• The car's tires were slashed by saboteurs.
• In May, officials asked for the public’s help in the search for the saboteur.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• The saboteur wants to control, avoid, please or play the victim.
  — Ellie Victor, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• At the end of the journey, the players will meet in the Snake Pit and put forth a guess as to the identity of the saboteur.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2022
• If the jam is successful, the hunter fails to get their meal, leaving it up for grabs for the saboteur.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2014
• However, this will be no easy feat, thanks to the secret saboteurs in the mix.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 1 June 2023
• Things don’t go to plan for the characters right from the beginning, thanks to the saboteur.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• In fact, she’s done all kinds of spy-like work and knows a thing or two about uncovering saboteurs.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• The shootings have had a chilling effect on the saboteur network, Azarov said.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
• One is that it may have been launched by a group of Russian saboteurs from inside Moscow.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• But the crash was not the work of German saboteurs, as some people believed due to the U.S. being then at war with Germany.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2018
• The explosions could be the work of Ukrainian special forces on the ground, local saboteur units, long-range weapons or a mix of all three, O’Brien said.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
• The humble sandwich is the saboteur of the American diet.
  — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2023
• Was this—and the consequent feeling of fraudulence—what set loose the saboteur?
  — Tom Junod, Esquire, 22 Apr. 2014
• Trump, by his words and his example, became not a leader but a saboteur.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• Hours//Getty Images Poor sleep is the secret saboteur of many over-40 guys’ attempts at losing weight.
  — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
• The report states the saboteurs cut through a chain link fence and were recorded on security cameras.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
• In order to win, the four must figure out which one of them is ‘the Snake’ – a saboteur who is secretly undermining the group every step of the way.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2022
• So the far-right members of the Rules Committee, or outside right-wing critics, or Trump, or all three—these are the saboteurs who could derail this deal.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• Not by saboteurs or protesters or a stage-stealing, fate-sealing politician — but by the orange-and-white cat that roamed the bridge the day before.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Police were called and a fight broke out; Teatr.doc complained about the invasion, the saboteurs that a minor had been admitted.
  — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
• All that celebrating from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day makes the season high on joy…and high on health saboteurs.
  — Linda Melone, Woman's Day, 9 Dec. 2014
• There’s also a saboteur in their midst with a connection to the park’s past, who is on a hunt for a legendary treasure and could destroy the venue forever.
  — Justine Browning, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• And a determined saboteur could use the same type of attacks to cause as much as $350 million per year in economic damage.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
• Each accomplice saboteur brings its own set of challenges.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Maybe there was something in what people said about them—saboteurs, poisoners. . . .
  — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Ukrainian media said Kyiv saboteurs used drones last week to hit bomber aircraft parked at air bases deep inside Russia.
  — Susie Blann and Dasha Litvinova, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Recruited to help the cops find the saboteurs, Moreau is not surprised to learn that among the suspects are several racers themselves.
  — Richard Lipez, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• The guide was for use by agents to recruit potential foreign saboteurs (U.S. sympathizers) and to give those folks the means to inflict sabotage and help the Allies win the war.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• One month after the forest camp appeared, unknown saboteurs blew up a nearby power line, forcing the factory to close for one week.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024