Sentence examples for saboteur from inspiring English sources

'saboteur' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to a person who deliberately damages or undermines something, such as an enemy spy who attempts to disrupt the operations of a nation during wartime. For example, "The saboteur sabotaged the government's plans for controlling the economy."

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saboteur

noun

A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of his/her enemy.

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In the words of the colleagues who know him best he is a selfish, dysfunctional, egomaniacal, saboteur.

Apart, that is, from the absence of hunt saboteurs, who were nowhere to be seen.Compared with protests about the threat to rural tradition and civil liberties from the hunting ban, the threat to the ways of the hunt saboteur has received little attention.

To supporters, this was courageous; to critics it cements his role as a saboteur.

A critic is often portrayed as a saboteur, and one with foreign friends is a spy.

A strong currency should help, so he has frozen the exchange rate for the past two years, and denounced as a "saboteur" anybody who suggests devaluation.

The scientific techniques which had been developed by the FBI in its war against organized gangsterism were employed to thwart the spy and the saboteur.

Under his own name, he won critical acclaim for dramatic film roles in King's Row (1942), Saboteur (1942), The Lost Moment (1947), and Dial M for Murder (1954); films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943) revealed his flair for light satire.

New Zealand-born intelligence agent who outwitted the German Gestapo for years and fought fiercely as a saboteur and spy for the French Resistance, ultimately becoming World War II's most decorated servicewoman.

The mission is further complicated by the presence of a saboteur.

Jeremy Deller on Bruce Lacey Despite leaving college only 57 years ago, Bruce Lacey has notched up an improbable yet impressive body of work as a painter, performer, hunt saboteur, film-maker, apprentice shaman, musician and inventor.

Alistair Jackson, a former master of the Cattistock Foxhunt and southeast spokesman for the BFSS, was arrested in Yeovil, Somerset, after allegedly punching a hunt saboteur.

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