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
Pressures on ordinary citizens to turn informer are great.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the agents warned him that his life was in danger, Fratianno decided to turn informer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geoffrey Pole, a younger brother, learned that the blow was coming in time to turn informer.
From England under the Tudors by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes
She did not suppose Netta would turn informer to Miss Roscoe, but she might very possibly mention the matter to Winnie, who would tell Beatrice, who would promptly tell Father.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Stanley Davis
