Example sentences for: operatives

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

  • By the time operatives for the planes operation were picked in mid-2000, some of them had been training in Afghanistan for months, others were just arriving for the first time, and still others may have been returning after prior visits to the camps.

  • So operatives either erased the Pakistani visas from their passports or traveled through Iran, which did not stamp visas directly into passports.

  • Ali reportedly assumed the operatives he was helping were involved in a big operation in the United States, he did not know the details.

  • And unlike other operatives, Mihdhar was not "clean": he had jihadist connections.

  • Khallad agrees about the recruit pool, but also argues that operatives' ethnicity was important for symbolic reasons, citing the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam embassy bombings and the planes operation as examples.


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