Defector is an English word with synonyms like deserter or wrongdoer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Defector meaning
One who defects.
Using Defector
- The main meaning on this page is: One who defects.
- Useful related words include: deserter, wrongdoer, offender.
- In the example corpus, defector often appears in combinations such as: korean defector, the defector, defector who.
Context around Defector
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Defector
- In this selection, "defector" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, korean, czech, profile, turned, claimed and writer stand out and add context to how "defector" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include another defector kyu li and defector ion mihai. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "defector" sits close to words such as abm, adsl and adua, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with defector
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Potential defector to follow her sister! (6 words)
Puck, Semafor, and Defector are common examples. (7 words)
Jin is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer. (10 words)
South Korea has said that a defector who recently fled to the North does not appear to have contracted Covid-19, a day after Pyongyang imposed a lockdown near the border, claiming the man was its first recorded case of the illness. (42 words)
The defector, running under the newly formed Party for Future Integration -- a merger of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party and two minor conservative parties -- said he does not leave any valuable data on his phone and has been taking precautions. (41 words)
Another defector Kyu Li Kim who escaped by swimming across the Tumen River to China in 1997 said she was worried that her sister might die after being arrested and sent back to North Korea from China last year. (39 words)
Potential defector to follow her sister! (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
A confidential minute from meeting said the Czech defector claimed to have been Stonehouse's controller in the late 1960s.
Defector’s financial lifeblood is subscriptions, now numbering more than 40,000.
Defector was founded in 2020 by the former staff of the sports and culture website Deadspin, which very publicly quit en masse in 2019 after Deadspin’s owners tried to enforce a ham-handed “stick to sports” mandate.
Jin is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer.
Phil Mickleson is perhaps the most high profile defector from to the PGA Tour to LIV Golf.
Potential defector to follow her sister!
Prigozhin (pictured) praised the defector's execution and said that a 'dog receives a dog's death' in response to the video of Nuzhin being bludgeoned to death.
Puck, Semafor, and Defector are common examples.
Rory McIlroy couldn’t resist taking a shot at a LIV Golf defector when he had the opportunity.
The defector who snuck into North Korea to save his mother - Ep.
Another defector Kyu Li Kim who escaped by swimming across the Tumen River to China in 1997 said she was worried that her sister might die after being arrested and sent back to North Korea from China last year.
Defector Ion Mihai Pacepa—a former senior official in the Romanian secret police—claimed that coined the term, giving it a French-sounding name to claim it had a Western origin.
However, while Park should be taken seriously as a North Korean defector, some controversies dosurround her stories of life in North Korea.
A North Korean defector in the South defended his claims regarding former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung (C) in a South Korean court on Friday.
In libelous invective, the accused Ji, the defector-turned-politician, of being a “rapscallion and a criminal” and a “pervert”– common criticisms issued by North Korea against high-profile escapees.
Jarkiholi, a defector from the Congress to the BJP, is now the Water Resources Minister in the year-old state BJP government since February 6, 2020.
Joo Sung-ha, a North Korean defector-turned journalist for the South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo, said in a Facebook post that it was reasonable to believe that Mr. Kim had health problems.
South Korea has said that a defector who recently fled to the North does not appear to have contracted Covid-19, a day after Pyongyang imposed a lockdown near the border, claiming the man was its first recorded case of the illness.
The CNN article quotes a defector claiming tunnel building continued well into the 1980s and would have sought to form links with Seoul’s sewer system, for potential use by disguised operators.
The defector, running under the newly formed Party for Future Integration -- a merger of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party and two minor conservative parties -- said he does not leave any valuable data on his phone and has been taking precautions.
Common combinations with defector
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- korean defector 11×
- the defector 7×
- defector who 6×
- defector from 4×
- defector to 3×
- defector in 3×
- and defector 2×
- prominent defector 2×
- tory defector 2×