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
• If there were any doubts that the Olympics would be a target, they were dispelled before dawn on Friday, when saboteurs carried out attacks on high-speed train lines in France.
  — Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• 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
• Below, courtesy of descriptions from Netflix, meet each of the 12 contestants — and feel free to speculate wildly about who is the saboteur (and who might end up breaking hearts on Perfect Match).
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024