How to Use bandit in a Sentence

bandit

noun

• Colossal Cave has a long history of use, including by Indigenous people, early explorers and even as a hideout for bandits.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Of course, anyone looking to recklessly blast rocket launchers and beat bandits to death for pocket treasure will be fully out of luck.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024