How to Use hit man in a Sentence

hit man

noun
  • She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
  • There was a harpist, a Mafia hit man and a cowboy named Theodore.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 5 May 2020
  • Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss and others meet their fates over the course of two days.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • If the virus hits men harder than women, health care systems will see, test, and count more men.
    — Sharon Begley, STAT, 3 Mar. 2020
  • And — no spoilers — a famous action movie star makes a surprise cameo as a hit man.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Jason dropped out of medical school and went to work for Sonny as a hit man.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
    — Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The previous night, she was threatened in her own home by the Colombian hit man Cortez.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2025
  • But Maria rejected the idea that hit men would have been after anyone in her family.
    — Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
  • In the movie, hit man Shane Stant bungles his way through the attack, breaking a locked glass door with his head to escape and drive off.
    — Sarah Caldwell, Cosmopolitan, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Dust Bunny is the story of a young girl who asks Mikkelsen's character, a hit man, to take care of a monster under her bed.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Rip, her father’s foreman and sometimes hit man, killed one adversary with a rattlesnake to the face, and has done worse to people who hurt Beth.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
  • That required massive amounts of money for transportation networks, for weapons, for hit men, and above all, for bribes — to cops and politicians and soldiers and border agents.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The threat was a bluff, of course, since the hit men in question were actually just Skinny Pete and Badger with laser pointers.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 9 Oct. 2019
  • During the 1980s, capturing the elder Matar became a top priority for the Libyan regime, which sent hit men abroad to find him.
    — Robert F. Worth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2017
  • In Ben Wheatley's brilliant and blistering work, a British soldier returns home and embarks on a career as a hit man, finding strange little details while on his various jobs.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The prosecutors described a pyramid of murder and impunity with Duterte at the apex, police and civilian officials in the middle, and low-level policemen, police assets, and hit men at the bottom.
    — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • With their leader detained, El Mayo’s sicarios, or hit men, declared war against supporters of Chapo’s sons in an attempt to exact vengeance for the treachery and strengthen their own position in the wider organization.
    — Daniel Depetris, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • With their leader detained, El Mayo’s sicarios, or hit men, declared war against supporters of Chapo’s sons in an attempt to exact vengeance for the treachery and strengthen their own position in the wider organization.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Trevilla said that in another part of Jalisco, soldiers killed another high-ranking cartel member accused of orchestrating violence by offering hit men more than $1,000 for every soldier killed.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • His trial lasted seven weeks and included testimonies from some of his former hit men, including John Veasey, who helped to prove that Stanfa had directed a bloody campaign against Merlino, per UPI.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In 2017, the Gardaí received a tip that the Kinahans had hired Imre Arakas, an Estonian hit man known as the Butcher, to murder James Gately, a member of the Hutch gang who lived in Belfast.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025

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