Example Sentences

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But the people feverishly looking for evidence that she’s some kind of fifth columnist sent to destroy video games are doing more damage to my favorite genres than she ever will.

From The Verge • Aug. 28, 2014

But the climax -- a fifth columnist begging Erica to shoot him, to create a scapegoat for the attack and prevent her from being exposed as a resistance fighter -- was inspired.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2011

It has a sharp sense of place just this side of satire, makes the principal villain an upper-class fifth columnist and is shocking in its ruthlessness.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010

Fourth estate fifth columnist In his search for dramatic stories, German Freelance Reporter G�nter Wallraff has masqueraded as a derelict, a mental patient, a napalm-factory worker and a Portuguese terrorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

In her heart, she was his silent ally, a fifth columnist, in Bull’s inveterate assaults on the trellised escutcheons of the Old South that Lillian shoved in front of him.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy