ringleader
Example Sentences
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Fars added that the buildings were "severely damaged" and police arrested several people described as "ringleaders".
From Barron's
Some of its forces managed to rescue Alawites and it has put some of the ringleaders of the massacres on trial.
From BBC
Energy Transfer identified two U.S.-based Greenpeace entities and the umbrella group Greenpeace International as the ringleaders responsible for the pipeline fiasco.
My Uncle Emmanuel—the ringleader of these jokes—smiles at me.
From Literature
Two 45-year-old Iraqi Kurds identified as the ringleaders of the smuggling network received the heaviest terms -- 12 and 15 years -- over the deaths of seven Afghans trying to reach the English coast.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
