Examples of hit man in a Sentence
She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
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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.
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The film sends him on the run from the bosses involved in this vast conspiracy, and a hit man played by Max von Sydow.
—Lindsey Bahr, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Judi’s hit man gets killed by Hyde-Tyler.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
That required massive amounts of money for transportation networks, for weapons, for hit men, and above all, for bribes — to cops and politicians and soldiers and border agents.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The film sends him on the run from the bosses involved in this vast conspiracy, and a hit man played by Max von Sydow.
—Lindsey Bahr, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Judi’s hit man gets killed by Hyde-Tyler.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
That required massive amounts of money for transportation networks, for weapons, for hit men, and above all, for bribes — to cops and politicians and soldiers and border agents.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hit man
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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20man. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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