How to Use bounty hunter in a Sentence

bounty hunter

noun
  • Din seems happy with his life as a bounty hunter.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
  • Notice a scene with the bounty hunter and the Child is on the sock liner.
    — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Rainy says Robinson was working as a bounty hunter at the time of his death.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Fall in love with the music, the look and bounty hunter Spike Spiegel.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 12 July 2023
  • He is not licensed as a bail agent, which is a requirement to act as a bounty hunter.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe the supposedly dead bounty hunter will get name-checked in the new movie?
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In the anime, Faye is a brash and skilled bounty hunter searching for her past.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Willa is taken by a bounty hunter, who decides not to kill her, but is then shot himself.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But bounty hunters get wind of the breakout—Rust has long been a wanted man—and give chase.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
  • Hutt gangsters, bounty hunters, wretched hives of scum and/or villainy, and so on.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The bounty hunter just wants to grab the girl and get out of there, but her assignment turns out to be not so simple.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Meanwhile, a bunch of bounty hunters have been hired specifically to kill the kid.
    — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The bounty hunter has been welcomed into the Tusken Raiders’ tribe.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Any defendants who lost would pay the bounty, along with the bounty hunter’s legal fees.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • But if the defendant prevails, the bounty hunter does not have to return the favor.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In real life, a group of 100 armed bounty hunters put the uprising down.
    — Ana Paulina Lee, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Djarin is a bounty hunter at the top of his game, making full use of his Mandalorian box of tricks.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 25 May 2026
  • Lilly, the lone human on Satellite, makes her way as a cabbie by day and a bounty hunter by night.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Stephanie is a, wait for it, bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
  • The book follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter on a mission to kill a group of rogue androids.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 26 June 2023
  • The 27-year-old works for SpaceX and also earns a living as a bounty hunter.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Fans were given a glimpse of Bliss’ bounty hunter-like costume, a red skin-tugging suit and a gold/black helmet.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
  • As such, the Italian fighter pilot now spends most of his time as a bounty hunter hired to attack air pirates.
    — Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026
  • While in the cantina, he's approached by a bounty hunter called Greedo and the two have a confrontation.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • LightBar wants bounty hunters to prod AI models in gray areas.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Is Teacup’s masked man the bounty hunter, while whatever is inside Arlo is the first alien?
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But not everyone enjoyed the film and some took exception with the inclusion of a black bounty hunter in the film.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
  • With help from secret sources and tips from the public, the bounty hunter turned up two key leads that led to major developments in the case.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea shows up as a bounty hunter for some reason, too.
    — cleveland, 27 May 2022
  • Wolves returned to Oregon about two decades ago after being wiped out by bounty hunters in the state 70 years ago.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2018

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