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
  • Her 5-year-old son was killed when bandits set fire to her home.
    — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Want to try and take on a bandit camp but don’t want to risk dying?
    — George Yang, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2025
  • This is a bunch of bandits run in with some hoodies, steal, what?
    — Fox News, 15 July 2018
  • This is the story of how a bandit culture took over the city.
    — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • The bandits are those who help themselves and cause others a loss.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Joseph put together a group who went through the bandit sign course.
    — Drew Jones, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
  • Come up with the title of a crime movie about this slow-moving bandit.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The wealthy and well-connected have made out like bandits.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The bandits tore the birds from their cages, stuffed them into backpacks and fled.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • Two of the bandits, who were hunkered down in the car’s open rear, returned fire.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Djarin offers to trade his jetpack for the foundling’s life, and the bandit agrees.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • After a lifetime of making out like bandits, the rich have to make do.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Players will have to keep an eye out for bandits and other hostiles in the area.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Suddenly the bandits all turn their guns on their own heads and collapse in a heap.
    — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 11 June 2018
  • McCourt made out like a bandit, but the team was in much better hands.
    — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Slowly kill the bandits in their sleep, and make your way to Johnny.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • But the next day, on the same route, another van was attacked by bandits.
    — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2017
  • He could be seen as a villain, a hero, a bandit, or as a murderer and a thief.
    — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The story goes that my grandmother helped fight off the bandits.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • And Ryan will make out like a bandit, too, despite his struggles this year.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Re-blockade will now happen at bandit camps and ruins.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • When he was killed by bandits in 1814, his daughter took over the ranch.
    — Joe Holley, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
  • 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
  • But the bandits showed up early and instead held up a passenger train along the same track.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • This location can be found north of Tachov in the forests beside a bandit camp.
    — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • There's bandits blocking the road in certain areas.
    — Tania Francois, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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