How to Use spymaster in a Sentence

spymaster

noun

• As the nation’s spymaster-in-chief, Gabbard has been as bad as critics feared.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• Each team’s spymaster knows the agents’ secret identities but can only give one-word clues to their teammates.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 Apr. 2020
• Everyone from civil liberties groups to spymasters seems to agree that this is silly.
  — Luke O'Brien, WIRED, 7 May 2007
• What are the rules for America's spymasters in their race to prevent the next terrorist attack?
  — CBS News, 18 May 2017
• This is the first le Carré thriller in more than 25 years to feature spymaster George Smiley.
  — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2017
• Hines’ Allan can’t really do much more with his role than play up the film noir ambiance of spymaster scenes that have an inserted feeling.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• One of the spymaster’s best agents, Kimball O’Hara, has gone missing in India.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• Then the prince’s former spymaster approaches Mer with a plan to steal the prince’s treasure, with a team of rogues that includes a corgi that might be a spy for the faeries.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
• Dan Coats is not exactly Central Casting’s version of a spymaster.
  — Massimo Calabresi, Time, 22 May 2018
• Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents, and teams compete to contact all of their agents first with one-word clues that point to multiple words on the board.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 27 Oct. 2023
• In this case, the last novel by British spymaster John le Carré, who died in December at 89.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• General Walters was an Army officer, a diplomat, a spymaster, etc.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2022
• The Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents abroad.
  — Bernard McGhee, sacbee, 26 Dec. 2017
• Unlike some of his comrades, who had escaped to the West with the help from foreign spymasters, Skripal was sent abroad on orders of the Kremlin.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
• The book ends with a doctor performing surgery on a bedroom table to save the life of his teen-age son, who has shot himself in the chest after killing a Nazi spymaster who made advances toward him.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• The brothers keep secrets even from their boss, the dying spymaster Freddy Craven, a family-member-by-proxy and one of the book’s most winning characters.
  — Nancy Kline, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2017
• Kilmeade places 355 in the social circle of British spymaster and legendary party-thrower John André.
  — Bill Bleyer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• Eventually Smiley does battle with the mole’s Soviet spymaster, Karla, his nemesis in the covert world.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
• Now overlay this with the vaccine deceptions used by America’s spymasters in Pakistan and more recently in the Philippines.
  — Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
• The project was overseen by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the President’s brother and the nation’s spymaster.
  — Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• Not until 2000, when a video showing the spymaster bribing a congressman was leaked by Montesinos' secretary and former mistress and broadcast.
  — Cynthia McClintock, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2013
• She's also guided by Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno), a former madame and information broker acting as Rhaenyra's spymaster (and sometimes lover).
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 20 June 2026
• China’s Foreign Ministry would not confirm the former spymaster’s presence in Beijing, even though video footage showed him at the airport after his arrival from Pyongyang.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• When a murder throws the stability of the realm of Albion into doubt, royal spymaster Hugh Thornton turns to Viola, whose magic may be the land's only hope — though their partnership gets off to a rocky start.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
• Published earlier this year, the book dives into the work of Sidney Gottlieb, an infamous chemist and spymaster at the CIA known as The Black Sorcerer.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
• Yermak’s successor, Kyrylo Budanov, a lieutenant general and spymaster who now leads Ukraine’s negotiating team, has been more amenable to compromises, even on the question of territory.
  — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
• When her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is assassinated, her spymaster, the enigmatic Reed (Lancashire), calls in Helen’s old friend Sam (Whishaw) to keep her safe.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2025
• Legendary spymaster Al Pacino finds brilliant tech-head Colin Farrell and recruits him into the CIA, hinting strongly that the young man’s late father was also working for the organization.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
• Aegon, dragged out of King’s Landing by spymaster Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) in an effort to save him from the fratricidal Aemond, gets an up-close look at the petty tyrants who have sprouted up in the countryside thanks to his impetuous rule.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2026
• Dan Stevens will take on the role of the enigmatic spymaster and has been joined in the buzzy John le Carré adaptation by All Quiet on the Western Front lead Felix Kammerer and Agnes O’Casey (Black Doves), who takes on the key role of Liz Gold.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026