How to Use informant in a Sentence

informant

noun
  • The police were alerted to the plot by a paid informant.
  • We learned the language with the help of a native informant.
  • And who’s the informant who’s ratting Jen out to the feds?
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • But the user did not tell the informant how to make the payment.
    — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The tarp was covering the windows and walls from the floor to the ceiling, the informant claimed.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The team tries to bring down a drug ring while Voight builds trust with a new informant, who has her own plans.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The next day, Phineas dropped a shopping bag through the window of an informant’s car.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The warrant states the informant went to Anderson's South 39th Street home on the night of March 5.
    — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
  • But the service had one key informant — a man given the code name Shaul.
    — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • All the while, NCIS must track down an informant whose life is in danger.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
  • An informant told Bolles that he was paid to wiretap his home phone.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Sirens whine in the background; informants call with tips; shots of derelict cityscapes suggest the loneliness of life on the lam.
    — Sean Paulsen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
  • The informant was able to gain access to the barn where Asha was kept, according to a search warrant.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • That night, Power’s informant got a text: The boxes are ready for pickup on the porch.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • So the agent set up a meeting with his informant who had once shared a prison cell with Jennifer's boyfriend.
    — Harold Dow, CBS News, 15 June 2024
  • After the arrest, two of the DEA informants involved in the sting were murdered.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • Years later Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Years later, Hatch takes on a father figure role to the son of the informant, Jayden (Min).
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In 2016, agents flipped one of the drug ring associates, who agreed to become an informant.
    — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That claim was based on an informant’s statements in 2019.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The teenage murderer who cut out part of an informant’s tongue.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • Inmates took bets on how long the FBI informant would survive.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The next day, the confidential informant let the stepfather know about the plot against him.
    — Nicole Acosta, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The informant’s identity was not disclosed in the records.
    — New York Times, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Stephen Robeson, with a long history of both past crimes and work as an informant, was there too.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The indictment says that the scheme was foiled by a U.S. government informant.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In the absence of children or grandchildren, cousin Dan Moody Jr. was the informant.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Grace also said the officers were sent to Young’s apartment on a tip by an informant about a gun in the apartment.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Everything unravels for her after a rotten run-in with the law turns her into an informant.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
  • One of her best informants was her daughter with partner Danny Fujikawa, who, like many six year olds in 2025, is showing an interest in beauty products.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 11 Mar. 2025

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