Examples of hit man in a Sentence
She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
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Fassbender plays the hit man like a runway model — photogenic but blank, an automaton’s version of Kevin Spacey’s hammy villain in Se7en.
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Armond White, National Review, 17 Nov. 2023
The director will go into detailed explanations about why the unnamed antihero, played by Michael Fassbender, is not just a hit man but a very, very unreliable narrator.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
Two years later, a hit man nearly assassinated him in his kitchen.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
Keaton plays an underworld hit man who is diagnosed with dementia.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
Following young hotel proprietor Winston Scott (played by Ian McShane in the franchise films and Colin Woodell in the series), The Continental dives into how Winston would ultimately seize the hotel to take his place at the helm of the hit man sanctuary.
—Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
The early years of crypto were defined by dark web marketplaces such as Silk Road, where curious buyers could purchase anything from bespoke drugs to hit men, using Bitcoin as a payment method.
—Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 27 Sep. 2023
Powell plays Gary, a psychology professor moonlighting as a fake hit man who participates in sting operations designed to trap folks looking to have someone whacked.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
Redoubtable supporting player Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) here offers a career-boosting, range-flaunting turn as a geeky academic who stumbles into doing a very specific kind of undercover work for the police: posing as, per the title, a hit man.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
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Armond White, National Review, 17 Nov. 2023
The director will go into detailed explanations about why the unnamed antihero, played by Michael Fassbender, is not just a hit man but a very, very unreliable narrator.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
Two years later, a hit man nearly assassinated him in his kitchen.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
Keaton plays an underworld hit man who is diagnosed with dementia.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
Following young hotel proprietor Winston Scott (played by Ian McShane in the franchise films and Colin Woodell in the series), The Continental dives into how Winston would ultimately seize the hotel to take his place at the helm of the hit man sanctuary.
—Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
The early years of crypto were defined by dark web marketplaces such as Silk Road, where curious buyers could purchase anything from bespoke drugs to hit men, using Bitcoin as a payment method.
—Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 27 Sep. 2023
Powell plays Gary, a psychology professor moonlighting as a fake hit man who participates in sting operations designed to trap folks looking to have someone whacked.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
Redoubtable supporting player Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) here offers a career-boosting, range-flaunting turn as a geeky academic who stumbles into doing a very specific kind of undercover work for the police: posing as, per the title, a hit man.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1963, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20man. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
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