How to Use assassin in a Sentence

assassin

noun
  • John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
  • The assassin that killed my friend tried to shut us up.
    — Sierra Van Der Brug, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Isn’t that what an assassin would do?
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • First, though, more assassins come for them.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Spies, assassins, all the good stuff.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The pint-sized assassin pulls a gun out of her fuzzy heart throw pillow and gets to work.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Abby pins her assassin’s hand to a windowsill with a steak knife.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • O'Brien lets out scream after scream as the mage burns the assassin alive.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The kid is an assassin, just like Jordan.
    — Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Up until then, slashers were silent assassins or a breather.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Some bowlers are just smiling assassins.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Now imagine he was felled by an assassin’s bullet.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Then there’s the issue of the fake assassin himself.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • What is the 'senior assassin' game?
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Girl takes out a Russian assassin with a single blow to the head.
    — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The details of how these would-be assassins got so close are still shrouded in mystery.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 10 July 2025
  • 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 assassin sprinted to the city gates, where horses were waiting for him.
    — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
  • The assassin is found guilty of shooting Garfield and is sentenced to death.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • He's knocked out and in the trunk of Irene the German assassin's car.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The cheery, unarmed person at the front gate couldn’t stop a heckler, let alone an assassin.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Three years later, a would-be assassin took aim at Roosevelt, too.
    — Douglas Brinkley, USA Today, 24 May 2026
  • And Charlie Kirk's assassin is still at large.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And then there's Ghost, the skilled assassin who wears a spooky spy suit and can phase through solid matter.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 5 July 2018
  • And those master assassins would turn out to be a pair of undercover feds.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Collin was a very quiet guy and Terrell Allen was like a silent assassin.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Playing the role of three-point assassin is the game of Mathis and Jones.
    — oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2019

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