turn informer
Example Sentences
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Shannon’s description of the ruthlessly transactional Le Roux recalibrating his new reality — “eyes twinkling like a computer rebooting” — to turn informer aboard the plane from Liberia, is priceless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2019
Pressures on ordinary citizens to turn informer are great.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the agents warned him that his life was in danger, Fratianno decided to turn informer.
From Time Magazine Archive
In our town there was one W. S., a man of a very wicked life; and he, when there seemed to be countenance given to it, would needs turn informer.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
Badman, says Mr. Wiseman, 'had malice enough in his heart' to turn informer, but he was growing prudent and had an eye to the future.
From Bunyan by James Anthony Froude
