How to Use saboteur in a Sentence

saboteur

noun
  • The car's tires were slashed by saboteurs.
  • The saboteur wants to control, avoid, please or play the victim.
    — Ellie Victor, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Team players can win more often than saboteurs.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Keep your paltry pocket lighters sheathed, would-be saboteurs.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • However, this will be no easy feat, thanks to the secret saboteurs in the mix.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 1 June 2023
  • If the jam is successful, the hunter fails to get their meal, leaving it up for grabs for the saboteur.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2014
  • Trump, by his words and his example, became not a leader but a saboteur.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In May, officials asked for the public’s help in the search for the saboteur.
    — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Things don’t go to plan for the characters right from the beginning, thanks to the saboteur.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • All fun and games, at least until the saboteurs start getting arrested.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026
  • One is that it may have been launched by a group of Russian saboteurs from inside Moscow.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The shootings have had a chilling effect on the saboteur network, Azarov said.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Was this—and the consequent feeling of fraudulence—what set loose the saboteur?
    — Tom Junod, Esquire, 22 Apr. 2014
  • The report states the saboteurs cut through a chain link fence and were recorded on security cameras.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • Allied officials say some of the ailing ships are doubling as low-tech saboteur vessels.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • An engineer doesn’t design a bridge while a saboteur armed with dynamite looks over his shoulder.
    — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The saboteurs' goal was to imply that No Labels was a right-wing shadow effort.
    — Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Even far from the front line, soldiers tend to dress casually—presumably because of the risk of spies or saboteurs.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In many cases, the true saboteur isn’t poor planning or resistant employees.
    — Mustafa Shreet, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • At the end of the journey, the players will meet in the Snake Pit and put forth a guess as to the identity of the saboteur.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 June 2022
  • While Ames' annoyed diligence helped to catch her saboteur, there may be many more cases that go undetected.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2010
  • Ukrainian media said Kyiv saboteurs used drones last week to hit bomber aircraft parked at air bases deep inside Russia.
    — Susie Blann and Dasha Litvinova, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Not by saboteurs or protesters or a stage-stealing, fate-sealing politician — but by the orange-and-white cat that roamed the bridge the day before.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • Our own inner saboteurs, as RuPaul would say, are really the villain of the story.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Some activists in other saboteur groups, which exist across England, report that their vehicles have been rammed off the road.
    — Euan Ward, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
  • One month after the forest camp appeared, unknown saboteurs blew up a nearby power line, forcing the factory to close for one week.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 7 May 2024
  • There’s also a saboteur in their midst with a connection to the park’s past, who is on a hunt for a legendary treasure and could destroy the venue forever.
    — Justine Browning, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • German prosecutors said the group of saboteurs hired a sailing yacht using false identities.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Even if Robert picks a suitable candidate, a saboteur is likely to ignore a direct order and tag along to steal the glory.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And a determined saboteur could use the same type of attacks to cause as much as $350 million per year in economic damage.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020

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