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Example sentences for "saboteur"

Lexicographically close words:
sable; sables; sabotage; sabotaged; sabotaging; saboteurs; saboth; sabots; sabre; sabred
  1. The presence of a saboteur on the Aztec represented a bungle in his department.

  2. You can be sure the saboteur will do his share.

  3. It was, he knew, a dangerous moment, one ripe for a saboteur to strike--or ripe for Richter.

  4. A saboteur would have iron nerves, a cold, icy fanaticism that never considered danger.

  5. Yet when the race started, Adam Crag found that he had a saboteur among his crew .

  6. Just before he finally fell asleep thought of the saboteur popped into his mind.

  7. And a saboteur is the lone wolf of the agents.

  8. They've restudied the records exhaustively, ever since we first knew there was a saboteur in the crew.

  9. The knowledge that one of his crew was a saboteur lay constantly in his mind.

  10. Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform.

  11. The potential saboteur should discover what types of faulty decisions and the operations are normally found in this kind of work and should then devise his sabotage so as to enlarge that "margin for error.

  12. Once he is encouraged to think backwards about himself and the objects of his everyday life, the saboteur will see many opportunities in his immediate environment which cannot possibly be seen from a distance.

  13. Safety Measures (a) The amount of activity carried on by the saboteur will be governed not only by the number of opportunities he sees, but also by the amount of danger he feels.

  14. Since the effect of his own acts is limited, the saboteur may become discouraged unless he feels that he is a member of a large, though unseen, group of saboteurs operating against the enemy or the government of his own country and elsewhere.

  15. More important than (a) or (b) would be to create a situation in which the citizen-saboteur acquires a sense of responsibility and begins to educate others in simple sabotage.

  16. The saboteur should be ingenious in using his every-day equipment.

  17. It should not be difficult to prepare leaflets and other media for the saboteur about the choice of weapons, time, and targets which will insure the saboteur against detection and retaliation.

  18. The saboteur should be encouraged to attacktransportation facilities of all kinds.

  19. The saboteur should try to damage only objects and materials known to be in use by the enemy or to be destined for early use by the enemy.

  20. Although the citizen-saboteur may rarely have access to military objects, he should give these preference above all others.

  21. For example, emery dust -- a at first may seen unobtainable but if the saboteur were to pulverize an emery knife sharpener or emery wheel with a hammer, he would find himself with a plentiful supply.

  22. Encouraging Destructiveness It should be pointed out to the saboteur where the circumstances are suitable, that he is acting in self-defense against the enemy, or retaliating against the enemy for other acts of destruction.

  23. He said he knew who the saboteur was, but he needed help to prove it.

  24. Finally, the interrogation was over and Connel declared, "One thing to remember when you are dealing with sabotage is this: if the saboteur fails, he might return.

  25. And it seemed that the only time when a saboteur could have gotten into the hangar and planted the bomb was during the hour the doors were unguarded.

  26. With double guards around the hangar area and even tighter security restrictions than before, the unknown saboteur was unable to attack the precious ship again.

  27. There was no need to upset the public and, more important, let the saboteur know how successful he had been.

  28. He realized that his knowledge of the identity of the saboteur would be a more effective weapon if everyone still believed he was on Mars.

  29. As the saboteur scrambled up the bank, two men rose from their hiding places in the tall bushes and grasped him by the arms.

  30. Unless the real saboteur is caught, the police intend to tag me with the job.

  31. A saboteur just blew up one of the piers by ramming it with a motorboat!

  32. If you wish, I'll talk to the police and assure them that so far as I know, the saboteur did not resemble your brother.

  33. This is where the saboteur got away," Penny whispered to her father.

  34. Then you think the saboteur may have rented his boat from Ottman's?

  35. As calmly as they could, the girls reported how the saboteur had dynamited the bridge.

  36. Carl Oaks said he recognized the saboteur as young Ottman.

  37. I want to ask him why he identified the saboteur as Sara Ottman's brother.

  38. With the Coast Guard on the job, that saboteur hasn't a chance.

  39. Satisfied that the saboteur had made his get-away by car, they were eager to report their findings to the Star office.

  40. And let a saboteur run off with this boat?

  41. Inadvertently, but as though by his very hand, certainly through the agency of some saboteur he had failed to spot, his weapon had been turned on his own troops at Thule, key post in the plan.

  42. Yes," he added grimly, "it looks like that's what your saboteur was.

  43. You are to turn it off, and to prevent the saboteur from stopping you.

  44. I think," he said, "that the saboteur may have been a meteor that punctured the balloon, and the nitrogen escaping through the hole it made is now producing enough thrust to keep that cable taut.

  45. And the attempt to smash the entire Platform by getting an atomic bomb into a plane and having a saboteur shoot the crew and then deliver the bomb at the Shed in an officially harmless aircraft.

  46. A saboteur tried to crawl into an air-lock entrance, and he got his head and shoulders in, but a copper-skinned Indian held his forehead still and chopped down with the side of his hand on that man's neck.

  47. But such a trained security man will often be badly handicapped if he comes upon the sabotage methods of a second man--an entirely different saboteur who thinks in a new fashion.

  48. At a guess, that sandy-haired guy set it up like that saboteur sergeant down in Brazil.

  49. And Mike brought down a spanner from a ladder step, and swarmed upon his half-conscious victim, and hit him again, and then stayed on guard until somebody arrived who was big enough to carry the saboteur away.

  50. And for a third fact, this is the one sort of thing no saboteur would expect from your security organization!

  51. Then it can be guessed what this saboteur will think and do.

  52. Any indication yet as to who our saboteur is?

  53. But I thought we could get enough information that way to tell us who our saboteur is.

  54. The next target for the saboteur would be his own project.

  55. Gordon added, "Maybe finding the actual saboteur is the toughest part, but there are some things about the thefts that aren't clear to me.

  56. Just the idea of witnessing a big rocket shoot was exciting enough, even without the added attraction of a saboteur to be uncovered.

  57. Rick thought that the trail of the Earthman had been a pretty devious one, complicated as it was by a gang of thieves as well as the saboteur himself.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saboteur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    collaborator; guerrilla; subversive; underground