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
• 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
• 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
• Mr Skripal is a former Russian spy who was exposed as a double agent.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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 programs were broadcast after the death of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
  — Charles Riley, CNN, 26 July 2019
• Hilde became a double agent, later joining with Edda in her attempt to get the diaries to safety.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• The story, which begins at the height of the Cold War and covers Hanssen’s entire time as a double agent, also explores the impact his sharing of secrets had on the country.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2023
• How did Farrow find that whistleblower or double agent?
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2019
• The former Russian spy who became a double agent for Britain and his daughter were poisoned in 2018 with the military grade nerve agent Novichok.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2020
• The bureau has reason to believe the KGB’s grudge-holding successors are on the trail of this still-living double agent, who’s now probably in his 80s.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• The secrets of the forest, a double agent’s last confession, Paul Theroux’s surfing tale, a friendly pack of dog stories and more.
  — Henry Hemming, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• Even inside the militias fighting al-Qaeda, there is a fear of double agents who routinely tip off the militants.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 6 July 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024