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
Could she turn informer, traitor, become a female Judas to a dying woman, who had sobbed and thanked her Maker because she had found some one whom she believed she could trust?
From The White Moll by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
"An ye mean this lad who hath so well cudgelled Black Dick," said Coulter, "I dare be sworn he is not a sneak to turn informer upon us."
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
