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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Bernadine appeared to be useless—or, worse, a potential double agent.
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David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
In 2018 the site published evidence that two Russian men were responsible for the near-fatal poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
—Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
Lydia, naturally, has her own reasons for pairing Agnes and Daisy together, evolving from a ruthless zealot and disciplinarian in Handmaid’s Tale into a kind of double agent looking to overthrow Gilead from within the hallowed halls of power in Testaments, as the finale set her up to do.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
He was sanctioned by the European Union in 2019 in connection with the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England with the nerve agent Novichok.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
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David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
In 2018 the site published evidence that two Russian men were responsible for the near-fatal poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
—Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
Lydia, naturally, has her own reasons for pairing Agnes and Daisy together, evolving from a ruthless zealot and disciplinarian in Handmaid’s Tale into a kind of double agent looking to overthrow Gilead from within the hallowed halls of power in Testaments, as the finale set her up to do.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
He was sanctioned by the European Union in 2019 in connection with the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England with the nerve agent Novichok.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
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“Double agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20agent. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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