How to Use spymaster in a Sentence

spymaster

noun

• This is the first le Carré thriller in more than 25 years to feature spymaster George Smiley.
  — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2017
• But the spymasters who have jousted with Trump have no claim to purity.
  — Jefferson Morley, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2019
• One of the spymaster’s best agents, Kimball O’Hara, has gone missing in India.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• Daemon Targaryen’s old lover Mysaria, now a high-powered spymaster known as the White Worm.
  — Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2022
• Then the prince’s former spymaster approaches Mer with a plan to steal the prince’s treasure, with a team of rogues that includes a corgi that might be a spy for the faeries.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
• In this case, the last novel by British spymaster John le Carré, who died in December at 89.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Unlike some of his comrades, who had escaped to the West with the help from foreign spymasters, Skripal was sent abroad on orders of the Kremlin.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
• What are the rules for America's spymasters in their race to prevent the next terrorist attack?
  — CBS News, 18 May 2017
• Each team’s spymaster knows the agents’ secret identities but can only give one-word clues to their teammates.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 Apr. 2020
• Some spymasters in Washington viewed Moscow as a lost cause.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2019
• Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents, and teams compete to contact all of their agents first with one-word clues that point to multiple words on the board.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
• Kilmeade places 355 in the social circle of British spymaster and legendary party-thrower John André.
  — Bill Bleyer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Hines’ Allan can’t really do much more with his role than play up the film noir ambiance of spymaster scenes that have an inserted feeling.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• The Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents abroad.
  — Bernard McGhee, sacbee, 26 Dec. 2017
• Munir, who is a former spymaster, replaced Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, who has retired from the post after a six-year term.
  — Time, 29 Nov. 2022
• The book ends with a doctor performing surgery on a bedroom table to save the life of his teen-age son, who has shot himself in the chest after killing a Nazi spymaster who made advances toward him.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• The brothers keep secrets even from their boss, the dying spymaster Freddy Craven, a family-member-by-proxy and one of the book’s most winning characters.
  — Nancy Kline, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2017
• Everyone from civil liberties groups to spymasters seems to agree that this is silly.
  — Luke O'Brien, WIRED, 7 May 2007
• Dan Coats is not exactly Central Casting’s version of a spymaster.
  — Massimo Calabresi, Time, 22 May 2018
• Now overlay this with the vaccine deceptions used by America’s spymasters in Pakistan and more recently in the Philippines.
  — Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
• China’s Foreign Ministry would not confirm the former spymaster’s presence in Beijing, even though video footage showed him at the airport after his arrival from Pyongyang.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• Eventually Smiley does battle with the mole’s Soviet spymaster, Karla, his nemesis in the covert world.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• General Walters was an Army officer, a diplomat, a spymaster, etc.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2022
• Martin Kurtz, Israeli spymaster, recruits Charlie as a double agent.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• Israel’s police chief, Roni Alsheikh, is a former agent-handler and spymaster in Shin Bet, the internal security service.
  — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
• John Jay, another Livingston in-law, had been a Revolutionary spymaster, diplomat, and politician who had helped write the state’s constitution.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Thatcher, repeatedly subjected to the whim of the powerful, has been instructed by a ruthless spymaster to detect the king’s true religious beliefs: Protestant or Catholic?
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
• Once the war began, Tubman served as a Union spymaster, gathering intelligence from her network among the South's enslaved population.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
• For example, the role of Malory on the comedy Archer, which debuted in 2009, was essentially Lucille Bluth reborn—wicked, wounded—as a cartoon spymaster.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2021
• Generations of spymasters, dictators and tax inspectors concurred, and so, as the rubble of the Humanities confirms, did the French theorist Michel Foucault.
  — Dominic Green, wsj.com, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024