INFORMER in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for INFORMER, such as:
1. Now you talk against the Irish informers.
2. The first I shall mention, relates to informers.
3. There needs to be a properly informed public debate.
4. We try and keep ourselves informed about current trends.
5. We aim to help students make more informed career choices.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INFORMER
informer
 n.  one who reveals confidential information in return for money
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He held the respectable office of general spy and informer in the establishment, for which volunteer service he received a present at Christmas, over and above his weekly wage.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
2  This Blessington or Sutton, who was the worst of the gang, turned informer.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
3  It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
4  As though the informer drew to himself a little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each one's flesh.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
5  There appeared to be reason for supposing that the drowned informer had hoped for a reward out of this forfeiture, and had obtained some accurate knowledge of Magwitch's affairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
6  The first I shall mention, relates to informers.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
7  Now you talk against the Irish informers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  For the one discouraged informers and gave heart to those who were disposed to conspire, the other prepared an easy road to his own death, or rather was prime mover in a conspiracy against himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
9  I was informed that the very religious Knights of Malta never fail to make this search when they take any Turkish prisoners of either sex.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
10  I was informed of your passage at Bordeaux, where I left faithful Cacambo and the old woman, who are to follow me very soon.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
11  I have been informed of the frightful disasters that befell the family of my lady Baroness, and the fair Cunegonde.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
12  The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
13  Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
14  When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
15  In truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed that they were women.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  All passengers get off and scramble over the mud, rocks and trees to get on the other bus and continue their journey, my informer explained.
2  The service had planted its agents and informers in some key positions in industry.
3  The headmistress informed us that the school would be closed for three days next week.
4  The headmistress informed us that the school would be closed for one day next week.
5  We aim to help students make more informed career choices.
6  We were very concerned to keep the staff informed about what we were doing.
7  I have been reliably informed that the couple will marry next year.
8  We try and keep ourselves informed about current trends.
9  A notice informed the guests that formal dress was required.
10  He hastened to assure us that the press would not be informed.
11  This professional year helps students to relate theory to practice and later to make more informed career choices.
12  We cannot release the names of the soldiers who were killed until we have informed their next of kin.
13  The name of the dead man will not be released until his relatives have been informed.
14  There needs to be a properly informed public debate.
15  The Chinese respondents were quite well informed the three main routes of infection: unprotected sex, dirty needles, and mother-to-child transmission.