How to Use bandit in a Sentence

bandit

noun
  • 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
  • Her 5-year-old son was killed when bandits set fire to her home.
    Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Whether with the Camel Corps or striking out with the camel on his own, Lurie keeps moving because of his bandit past.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The bandits demanded the packages from the courier and fled in two cars, both of which went south on Highway 101.
    Gary Klien, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
  • Gardeners in the Garden State, beware: There’s a plant bandit on the loose.
    Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Two tellers handed over about $2,840 in cash to the bandit, Chappell wrote.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Trained in martial arts from a young age and raised by a bandit king, Mu Guiying was a genuine badass.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Still, this load killed bandits, deer, and even larger critters.
    Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Putin called Khangoshvili a bandit but denied that Russia played any role in his death.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • Historians tell the tale of bandits being hanged near a trading post on the site.
    Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
  • Idris hopes to make a film about Lawrence Anini, a Nigerian bandit who was killed by a firing squad in 1987.
    Demetria L. Lucas, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Since then, armed bandits have held up at least nine other bars and taverns in east or north Portland.
    oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Around the same time, at least 200 people were killed in bandit attacks in northwest Nigeria.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Anyone who held a short position of FTT at the start of November would have made out like a bandit.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2023
  • But this time, the sign bandit got caught with a little help from an Apple AirTag tracking device.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2022

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