Examples of hit man in a Sentence
She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
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Armando is warned by the resistance to leave the country as regime hit men track him down.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2025
His trial lasted seven weeks and included testimonies from some of his former hit men, including John Veasey, who helped to prove that Stanfa had directed a bloody campaign against Merlino, per UPI.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
In Ben Wheatley's brilliant and blistering work, a British soldier returns home and embarks on a career as a hit man, finding strange little details while on his various jobs.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
In 2017, the Gardaí received a tip that the Kinahans had hired Imre Arakas, an Estonian hit man known as the Butcher, to murder James Gately, a member of the Hutch gang who lived in Belfast.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2025
His trial lasted seven weeks and included testimonies from some of his former hit men, including John Veasey, who helped to prove that Stanfa had directed a bloody campaign against Merlino, per UPI.
—Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
In Ben Wheatley's brilliant and blistering work, a British soldier returns home and embarks on a career as a hit man, finding strange little details while on his various jobs.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
In 2017, the Gardaí received a tip that the Kinahans had hired Imre Arakas, an Estonian hit man known as the Butcher, to murder James Gately, a member of the Hutch gang who lived in Belfast.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20man. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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