hit man

Example Sentences

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“If there are no jobs, it sounds terrible to say, but for many the closest thing to a job is being a hit man,” Wells said.

From Seattle Times

In Florida, the authorities said, a woman paid a hit man using part of a $15,000 loan intended to aid struggling small businesses.

From New York Times

That purported hit man turned out to be an undercover officer on an FBI task force, who had been tipped off to the plot by one of Gilbert’s fellow inmates.

From Washington Post

Billy Summers isn’t a typical hit man — he’s thinking about Émile Zola when the book opens, for starters, and has a strict rule of only killing “bad guys.”

From New York Times

Republicans don’t want us to focus on “the hit man,” in Dunn’s resonant phrase.

From Washington Post