turn informer
Example Sentences
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Shannon’s description of the ruthlessly transactional Le Roux recalibrating his new reality — “eyes twinkling like a computer rebooting” — to turn informer aboard the plane from Liberia, is priceless.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2019
When the agents warned him that his life was in danger, Fratianno decided to turn informer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pressures on ordinary citizens to turn informer are great.
From Time Magazine Archive
It could not be necessary to turn informer and voice suspicions which, after all, might prove to have been entirely groundless.
From The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life by Dixon, Arthur A.
He was, in fact, informed of every detail, through Fulvia, the mistress of Curius, one of the plotters, who was himself soon persuaded to turn informer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
