Example sentences for: informant

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

  • ' A Tennessee informant used dog weather for `hot, rainless weather,' which may derive from the expression dog days referring to dry August weather.

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

  • Additionally, ruled the judge, Starr turned Hubbell into an informant against himself in basing the tax charges on records that Hubbell provided to him under a grant of immunity.

  • He defected and became a star informant for the United States.

  • The ideal informant (INF) was a native and lifelong resident from an old local family, someone without much exposure to the outside world, who spoke regularly and familiarly with community members of all social ranks and occupations, who could remember precisely how all of them talked about their social, domestic, economic, and natural environments, and who would donate ten to twenty hours of free time to transmit all this information.


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