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saboteur

[ US /ˌsæbəˈtɝ/ ]
[ UK /sˌæbətˈɜː/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
  2. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

How To Use saboteur In A Sentence

  • No doubt a couple of sleazoids will appear, maybe even a saboteur.
  • German saboteurs plotted a wartime bombing campaign in Britain using exploding cans of processed peas, according to secret files made public for the first time today.
  • During the boat ride, he pointed out the site of a former Maori pa, a fortified settlement hidden in the bush where warriors had hauled their canoes high up the cliffs to protect them from saboteurs.
  • Police are making great savings by no longer having to send officers and helicopters out to deal with clashes between hunts and saboteurs on almost every Saturday during the winter.
  • Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting telegraph wire.
  • In that ruling, the justices said spies and saboteurs were violators of the law of war and so were not entitled to prisoner-of-war protections.
  • The chief engineer of the pipeline said saboteurs are definitely responsible for the resultant explosion and fire.
  • The object was to show how a certain sector of the economy fulfilled or overfulfilled its plan, despite wreckers, saboteurs, pessimists, and other perils.
  • Criminals, saboteurs, and diehard regime loyalists must be detained and tried in a fair manner.
  • The soldiers shot the three saboteurs.
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