Example sentences for: informant

How can you use “informant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A former drug informant and a dropout from the U.S. witness protection program, Miller has found a safe haven on St. Kitts, where his bullying and his cash have won him enormous political influence with the island's shaky government.

  • It is possible, for example, for two persons to interview the same informant and find that one has used a one-sentence summary for a detailed, rich, 5-minute discourse while the other captured much more of the complexity and essence of what was said and what was happening.

  • Another good example of the life of a bato loco is “La Vida de un Bato Loco,” a short memoir written by an informant of Linda Katz, reproduced in her thesis on the pachuco language and culture written for a master’s degree at the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • Subliminally aware of these tendencies in her speech, my unwitting informant had compensated for the tendencies by reverse substitution.

  • It was at first thought that Cook and the naturalist Joseph Banks, who was at his side, had erred, either in their understanding or in their documentation, and it was later suggested that an Aboriginal informant had misunderstood the question and replied I don't know or something a little less polite.


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