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
When the agents warned him that his life was in danger, Fratianno decided to turn informer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pressures on ordinary citizens to turn informer are great.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I forewarn you, madame, that I should turn informer," he answered in the same light key, but forced.
From The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils
A veteran robber was induced to turn informer, and to lay before the King a list of the chief highwaymen, and a full account of their habits and of their favourite haunts.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
