Examples of double agent in a Sentence
He was secretly working as a double agent for the Americans during the war.
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The conflict was personal; there was betrayal, a double agent, a secret team of political operatives, — and a decisive victory for one side that left the other bitter.
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Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
Spying on Franklin Franklin succeeded in securing France’s support despite the fact that he was surrounded by double agents and spies, both English and French.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
Late in 2022, German intelligence services discovered one of their own officers had been working as a double agent, sending sensitive information about the war to Russia.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Buchanan-Dineen’s work as a double agent brought her no benefits.
—Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
In 2018, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the U.K. with a nerve agent believed to be the same Novichok poison later used on Navalny.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
In the last episode Varma and Jaffrey will be joined by the relative of a real-life spy, Charlotte Philby, whose grandfather was Soviet double agent Kim Philby.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
Both are seemingly amusing characters who give texture to Beck’s life beyond the job yet have serious roles to play in catching Atterbury’s killer, identifying the elusive double agent — and no doubt setting up their parts in future books.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
The countess was a double agent The countess Buchanan-Dineen was born in Canada in 1909 and educated in a French convent.
—Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024
Spying on Franklin Franklin succeeded in securing France’s support despite the fact that he was surrounded by double agents and spies, both English and French.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
Late in 2022, German intelligence services discovered one of their own officers had been working as a double agent, sending sensitive information about the war to Russia.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Buchanan-Dineen’s work as a double agent brought her no benefits.
—Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
In 2018, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the U.K. with a nerve agent believed to be the same Novichok poison later used on Navalny.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
In the last episode Varma and Jaffrey will be joined by the relative of a real-life spy, Charlotte Philby, whose grandfather was Soviet double agent Kim Philby.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
Both are seemingly amusing characters who give texture to Beck’s life beyond the job yet have serious roles to play in catching Atterbury’s killer, identifying the elusive double agent — and no doubt setting up their parts in future books.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
The countess was a double agent The countess Buchanan-Dineen was born in Canada in 1909 and educated in a French convent.
—Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
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“Double agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20agent. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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