hired killer
Example Sentences
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There is usually an honest officer, or officers, of the law; someone in over their head; and a hard-to-stop, possibly crazy hired killer.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023
A hired killer lives like a samurai in a bare room with a caged bird, aloof from his French mistress.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019
Surrounded by pretty women who dote on him, Big Daddy lives an idyllic life, until government agents and a hired killer start closing in.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2019
All women are looking in some ways for a prince or a princess charming and often you get a hired killer, you know.
From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2011
Because of the ever-present possibility of assassination at the hand of some disgruntled commoner or a hired killer, only the noblemen of Ammad were allowed to pass that spear-bristling line of guards.
From The Return of Tharn by Browne, Howard
