How to Use bandit in a Sentence

bandit

noun
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  • In that time span, the poop bandit got away with the same thing two more times.
    — Mark Shrayber, Health.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • In the film, three bandits try to force Cooper to hand over the map to a gold mine.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2019
  • This is the story of how a bandit culture took over the city.
    — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • Djarin offers to trade his jetpack for the foundling’s life, and the bandit agrees.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
  • When one of the bandits pulled out a handgun, the man tried to grab it and the weapon went off, police said.
    — Chris Palmer, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
  • Her 5-year-old son was killed when bandits set fire to her home.
    — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
  • When he was killed by bandits in 1814, his daughter took over the ranch.
    — Joe Holley, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
  • This is a bunch of bandits run in with some hoodies, steal, what?
    — Fox News, 15 July 2018
  • Two of the bandits, who were hunkered down in the car’s open rear, returned fire.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • But neither of them is a match for the Bishop (Gal Gadot), the best bandit in the business.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The bandits tore the birds from their cages, stuffed them into backpacks and fled.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • Come up with the title of a crime movie about this slow-moving bandit.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 2 Dec. 2022
  • This time, the bandit broke through a pane of glass with a sledgehammer and was in and out in minutes.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2020
  • McCourt made out like a bandit, but the team was in much better hands.
    — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The tale of the bandit with one hand under his coat is one of Rosas’ favorite stories to share.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • But a decade ago, rooftop bandits breached a series of banks in strip malls across the San Gabriel Valley.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The bandits hid their car and laid in wait for police behind the Caley Methodist Church on Ind. 16.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2018
  • So the prescription for the poop bandits in your office?
    — Mark Shrayber, Health.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • After a lifetime of making out like bandits, the rich have to make do.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And after threats from Poly Network, the online bandit gave up the rest.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • He could be seen as a villain, a hero, a bandit, or as a murderer and a thief.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • For some time, the FBI has been chasing the bandit without success.
    — Jessica Flores, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2020
  • But the next day, on the same route, another van was attacked by bandits.
    — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2017
  • Suddenly the bandits all turn their guns on their own heads and collapse in a heap.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 11 June 2018
  • And Ryan will make out like a bandit, too, despite his struggles this year.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The story goes that my grandmother helped fight off the bandits.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The lock-picking bandit looks at the closed safe with a pair of field glasses and disappears.
    — José Mandojana, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2020
  • On the basketball court, some gasped in horror when bandits opened fire on a group of migrants on the screen.
    — Elian Peltier Annika Hammerschlag, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • By the light of the full moon, bandits in Toyota Tundra pickups roll up alongside trains that are hauling copper slabs from the mines high in the Atacama down to the coast.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • The leader of the bandits was originally a man named Randall, after the character played by David Rappaport in the film.
    — Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024

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