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 tarp was covering the windows and walls from the floor to the ceiling, the informant claimed.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
• The next day, Phineas dropped a shopping bag through the window of an informant’s car.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• The warrant states the informant went to Anderson's South 39th Street home on the night of March 5.
  — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
• But the service had one key informant — a man given the code name Shaul.
  — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• 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
• That night, Power’s informant got a text: The boxes are ready for pickup on the porch.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• So the agent set up a meeting with his informant who had once shared a prison cell with Jennifer's boyfriend.
  — Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
• After the arrest, two of the DEA informants involved in the sting were murdered.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• 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
• The teenage murderer who cut out part of an informant’s tongue.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
• Inmates took bets on how long the FBI informant would survive.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• The next day, the confidential informant let the stepfather know about the plot against him.
  — Nicole Acosta, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
• Stephen Robeson, with a long history of both past crimes and work as an informant, was there too.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• The indictment says that the scheme was foiled by a U.S. government informant.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the absence of children or grandchildren, cousin Dan Moody Jr. was the informant.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2022
• Otto, for his part, never publicly named van den Bergh, who died in 1950, as the informant.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2022
• But the companies ignored them, an informant told the FBI.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• Toward the end of the war, Franziska was arrested on charges of treason and was accused of acting as an informant.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Campbell asks Carlos if the informant told him anything and Carlos lies.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2024
• Strahovski will star in the lead role as Katharina, a young mother in New York who’s recruited to become an informant.
  — Kristen Tauer, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024