How to Use hacker in a Sentence

hacker

noun
  • My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers.
  • One helped start the all-female hacker house.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Qubit has asked the hacker to return the funds, so far to no avail.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That story took a strange turn when the hacker gave back all the funds.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Those numbers come from the hackers' claims.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • The edge is a hacker’s delight.
    — Srinivas Shekar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Gruber is stern with his men, but takes a far lighter tone with his young hacker.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The hackers do not appear to have leaked files from Democrats.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The hackers didn’t have to put much effort into their work.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 17 June 2026
  • These can be insecure and present easy prey for hackers.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • In the eyes of a hacker, that’s a great way into your home’s network.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2021
  • This grants hackers control over much of your device.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • On Sunday, a friend from his hacker days sent him a full copy of the movie.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The e-mail story was defined by a hacker and a liar, and the press played along.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Just last month, a hacker shut down schools in Spring Lake Park.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • The cost of renting a room in a hacker house works much like having roommates.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Reuters was unable to reach the hackers or verify any of their claims.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The level of access the hacker achieved was enough to neuter just about any defense.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2020
  • How did hackers get the LAPD files?
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The hacker emails, those files to everyone in my contact list.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The hacker stole the access code and drained about 30% of its total funds.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • For starters, the orb might have coding flaws that could let a hacker decipher all the iris scans.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 July 2023
  • These networks often allow hackers to hide in plain sight.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This is now one of the hacker's go-to tools to get a foot in the door of the enterprise networks.
    — Vince Marino, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • But hackers are a resourceful group.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover there is no guarantee that hackers will honor their word even if paid.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This ensures that if a hacker tries to use malware to get deeper access, it is blocked.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • By last spring, the hackers had cut off Nada’s access to the Alp files.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But there are several clues that point to the hacker’s identity.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • Firewalls have long been a favorite network entry point for hackers.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026

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