Example sentences for: whistle-blower

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

  • … Mann could probably make a movie about needlepoint riveting" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Russell Crowe shines as Jeffrey Wigand (the whistle-blower); Al Pacino hams it up as a moralizing 60 Minutes producer; and Christopher Plummer does a mean Mike Wallace.

  • The critics are shocked: They actually like director Michael Mann's film about the 60 Minutes interview with a tobacco industry whistle-blower, which was canned when CBS caved to corporate pressure.

  • What gives this version its kick--and what has made it fodder for columnists for almost six months--is that the people who betray the whistle-blower are among the most famous and powerful journalists in America: Mike Wallace and Don Hewitt, the co-anchor and the executive producer of 60 Minutes . If they could be pressured to "spike" a segment that they knew to be true, the film implicitly asks, how much chance do others have of breaking stories about corporate wrongdoing?

  • Newsweek says that a whistle-blower could help American cities in their lawsuits against gun companies.


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