How to Use assassin in a Sentence

assassin

noun

• John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
• But when the time came, John refused, so the High Table sent its army of assassins.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
• If the lip-sync assassin wins, a secret group vote will determine which queen gets the chop.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 May 2023
• Rathbone tried to subdue Booth, but the assassin attacked him with a knife.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• The film is based on a French graphic novel series about the life of an unnamed assassin.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• And there is the balcony at the Lorraine Motel, less than 2 miles away, where an assassin’s bullet killed King the next day and changed the future of Black life.
  — Gary Fields, ajc, 4 Feb. 2023
• Craig, of course, was front and center in the film as 007, while Bautista had a supporting role as Mr. Hinx, Spectre’s top assassin.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
• When members of the team are suddenly kidnapped, the agents assemble to take down the assassin and save their own.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Police soon drew a line between the assassin and spinoff Kahane groups.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• Good will, like the reign of legendary assassins, doesn't last forever.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
• After proving himself as a crunch-time assassin at Damien, Zander Jimenez scored 10 stress-free points in the blowout.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2024
• The assassin droid worked as a bounty hunter before being blasted by the Mando.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
• Spawn is a former assassin who makes a deal with a devil after being killed.
  — Vulture, 5 Oct. 2022
• Thinking any stranger could be an assassin is a pretty unstable way to spend a month.
  — Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• Addressing the crowd, one fiery speaker praised the assassins as martyrs and their feat as a victory for God.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Then there was the bit about the assassins dispatched by her family, and his flight into exile in Brussels.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• Hollywood has been trying to get this assassin movie project off the ground for easily over two decades.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023
• This is especially true when, late in the movie, two assassins meet at a fancy restaurant.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• In Shrek 2, Puss was originally hired as an assassin to kill Shrek, but failed in his attack.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
• Chapman is best known for playing the cunning assassin Zhilan on Kung Fu.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• John must fight his way through more hordes of assassins in Paris to reach Sacré-Cœur in time for his climactic duel against the Marquis—a nod to the classic gunslinger trope.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2023
• However, before the timer on his cake buzzes, he is attacked by assassins.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• The scenes show the arc of his assassin's passionate romance with a lover who is murdered on their wedding day, which sends Wolf seeking revenge on the train.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
• In it, Lopez plays an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she was forced to leave behind because of her dangerous job.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
• Michael Fassbender is an assassin trying to stay calm in his latest movie role.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
• Abraham Lincoln’s assassin believed in the righteousness of his cause until the very end.
  — Jeremi Suri, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
• When a very talented killer named Villanelle and Eve go head to head in a fierce game of cat and mouse, Eve is determined to hunt down the psychopathic assassin.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 4 Nov. 2022
• Take up the assassin's mantle once more, and eliminate the leaders of the templar order within Baghdad.
  — PCMAG, 19 Jan. 2023
• Jason Statham is back in action as a ruthless assassin in the upcoming thriller The Beekeeper.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• The send off for Mr. Abe, who was killed by an assassin’s bullet in July, reflected the divisions that also marked his term in office.
  — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024