How to Use assassin in a Sentence

assassin

noun

• John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
• Pitt and Jolie met on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the 2005 movie in which the two played married assassins.
  — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
• And Zazie has been the top, most unattainable assassin in the world.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2022
• The assassin settled down in Athens and hoped that the past would leave him alone.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2020
• The pint-sized assassin pulls a gun out of her fuzzy heart throw pillow and gets to work.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 Feb. 2025
• But what if the assassin loses her nerve and can’t do it?
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2020
• The is is a three-way fight: Maya vs Clint/Kate vs ninja assassin.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• But when the time came, John refused, so the High Table sent its army of assassins.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2023
• Girl takes out a Russian assassin with a single blow to the head.
  — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
• The assassin was cornered by U.S. troops and killed at a farm in Virginia on April 26.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2022
• Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 7 June 2020
• In John Wick, Reeves stars as the legendary assassin who has retired to marry the love of his life.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
• The assassin is probably Olsen, who is tied up in the hayloft of Maggie’s barn.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
• In it, Crow, unmasked, appears to Zavala briefly right as a Psion assassin is about to kill him.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Moments like that, and the future ones, were lost when a 24-year-old assassin named Sirhan Sirhan took it all away.
  — CBS News, 12 Dec. 2021
• The assassin sprinted to the city gates, where horses were waiting for him.
  — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
• The cut-outs point to Stenberg’s role as an assassin named Mae in the Disney+ live-action series.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 29 May 2024
• If the lip-sync assassin wins, a secret group vote will determine which queen gets the chop.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 May 2023
• The terrified assassin, of course, didn’t know that, and gave up the mayor to the amused Boba and Fennec.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2022
• The action heats up quickly as the superhero stops a would-be assassin at the White House.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
• Rathbone tried to subdue Booth, but the assassin attacked him with a knife.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• The cheery, unarmed person at the front gate couldn’t stop a heckler, let alone an assassin.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• Ellie has grown from a 14-year-old survivor to a 19-year-old assassin.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Apr. 2025
• Abby pins her assassin’s hand to a windowsill with a steak knife.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
• Just two months ago, Trump was shot in the right ear by a would-be assassin during a rally in Butler, Pa.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2024
• The film is based on a French graphic novel series about the life of an unnamed assassin.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• My interpretation of the video is that the boy is an assassin who was hired to kill the singer, Mandarine.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2021
• But the Bulldogs went into assassin mode in the second half.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• Sure enough, Ray takes the hit like a champ when a mysterious assassin emerges from the shadows and fires a gnarly one off in his leg.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
• García said the other man was an assassin for 18th Street.
  — David Culver, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025