Examples of hit man in a Sentence
She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
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Madsen stars as mobster Sonny Black opposite Al Pacino’s hit man Lefty and Johnny Depp’s titular agent Donnie.
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Jami Ganz, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2025
But according to a 2024 Department of Justice criminal complaint, Tehran also spent years seeking hit men to assassinate former Trump officials associated with the plan to kill Soleimani.
—Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
The novel, as Fitzgerald planned it, was supposed to climax with the Mayer and Thalberg characters hiring hit men to murder each other.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Sconce eventually pleaded guilty to 21 criminal counts — including for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations and hiring hit men — and was sentenced in 1989 to five years in prison.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
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Jami Ganz, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2025
But according to a 2024 Department of Justice criminal complaint, Tehran also spent years seeking hit men to assassinate former Trump officials associated with the plan to kill Soleimani.
—Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
The novel, as Fitzgerald planned it, was supposed to climax with the Mayer and Thalberg characters hiring hit men to murder each other.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Sconce eventually pleaded guilty to 21 criminal counts — including for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations and hiring hit men — and was sentenced in 1989 to five years in prison.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20man. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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