How to Use informant in a Sentence

informant

noun

• The police were alerted to the plot by a paid informant.
• We learned the language with the help of a native informant.
• And who’s the informant who’s ratting Jen out to the feds?
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
• The deal went bad, Mr. Bloom wrote, and the two, along with an informant, fled to Beirut, Lebanon.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• Back in 2018, the FBI learned of a hack that may have cost some informants their lives.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
• But the user did not tell the informant how to make the payment.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• The plot was foiled with the help of an informant, officials said at the time.
  — NBC News, 30 July 2020
• The tarp was covering the windows and walls from the floor to the ceiling, the informant claimed.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
• Emilio Sanchez, who had come to the U.S. in his youth, was an ideal informant.
  — John Harris, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
• The team tries to bring down a drug ring while Voight builds trust with a new informant, who has her own plans.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
• The next day, Phineas dropped a shopping bag through the window of an informant’s car.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• The warrant states the informant went to Anderson's South 39th Street home on the night of March 5.
  — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
• But the service had one key informant — a man given the code name Shaul.
  — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• All the while, NCIS must track down an informant whose life is in danger.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
• An informant told Bolles that he was paid to wiretap his home phone.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• Sirens whine in the background; informants call with tips; shots of derelict cityscapes suggest the loneliness of life on the lam.
  — Sean Paulsen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
• Eban soon learned that what her informant had told her was true, not least of Ranbaxy.
  — Daniel J. Kevles, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• The informant was able to gain access to the barn where Asha was kept, according to a search warrant.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• That night, Power’s informant got a text: The boxes are ready for pickup on the porch.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• So the agent set up a meeting with his informant who had once shared a prison cell with Jennifer's boyfriend.
  — Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
• After the arrest, two of the DEA informants involved in the sting were murdered.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• Years later Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• Years later, Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
• In 2016, agents flipped one of the drug ring associates, who agreed to become an informant.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2023
• That claim was based on an informant’s statements in 2019.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
• The teenage murderer who cut out part of an informant’s tongue.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
• The bottom of the photo claims the source of the information was a former CIA informant.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• Inmates took bets on how long the FBI informant would survive.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• Experts proved the mark wasn’t from a bite, and the jailhouse informant was not credible.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• But the cases in which informants provided testimony didn’t always hold up, The Enquirer found.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025