Examples of hit man in a Sentence
She hired a hit man to kill her ex-husband.
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The casa rifugio was set up to keep women safe from violent spouses, not to protect them from hit men.
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D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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, 25 Oct. 2024
Powell, as the dorky professor Gary Johnson turned expert undercover fake hit man, gives a megawatt star turn, effortlessly shifting between his character’s multiple personas, while co-lead Adria Arjona is similarly compelling as an abused wife who is more dangerous than meets the eye.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
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D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
—Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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, 25 Oct. 2024
Powell, as the dorky professor Gary Johnson turned expert undercover fake hit man, gives a megawatt star turn, effortlessly shifting between his character’s multiple personas, while co-lead Adria Arjona is similarly compelling as an abused wife who is more dangerous than meets the eye.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
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“Hit man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20man. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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