How to Use renegade in a Sentence

renegade

1 of 2 noun
  • She regaled him with stories about pirates and renegades on the high seas.
  • The group was full of free spirits and renegades who challenged every assumption of what art should be.
  • Or what jobs a group of renegade donkeys may choose.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The renegade river carried her brother-in-law out of his home next door.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • That doesn’t mean that Romney has lit a path for other would-be renegades.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Captured in a trash can, tossed into jail, the renegade lawyer looks to be spinning out.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The renegade runaways fled, forcing her to hitch a ride with a competitor.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • But thankfully, there are always a few renegade risk-takers who break away from the pack.
    — Vogue, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Press reports called him a renegade and a maverick, and many in his profession shunned him.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Rather than punish your plants for the deeds of a bunch of renegade caterpillars get them under control.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Known as a caustic renegade, Davis was one of the first outspoken owners in sports.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Alternate between dumbbell thrusters and renegade rows with a medium set of weights.
    — Tatiana Lampa, Good Housekeeping, 13 July 2022
  • Instead, electronic kick drums flinch and stutter while renegade synth melodies squirm around the music’s edges.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Johnson punished the 21 renegades by throwing them out of the party.
    — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • This is a great workout finisher to burnout the back and core, by combining rowing with some renegade rows.
    — Mark Barroso Cscs, Men's Health, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Skarsgård has long been a red carpet renegade, showing flashes of that playful freak that lives within.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Yet even as the stigma attached to these spaces spread, there were lonely renegades fighting to preserve them.
    — Hazlitt, 16 May 2022
  • Among his insights was a warning of the dangers of a renegade President.
    — Jon Meacham, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The fight is on, with a flurry of punches that hasn’t stopped since the game was split by the controversial arrival of the renegade tour.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Taiwan remains a thorn in the side of Beijing, which regards the island nation as a renegade state.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 May 2022
  • In fact, a few renegade blooms were already open in early January, welcoming the new year.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Holding hands, terrace kisses and renegade servants?
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The president can call out the army against seceding states and their renegade congresspeople.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • But Tiny Desk offers the perfect venue to present himself as a genre-transcending renegade.
    — Adlan Jackson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Hundreds of hikers, and a few renegade mountain bikers, traipsed across the path to Donut Falls last weekend.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
  • Here, Prince Charles is a renegade who doesn’t think the monarchy is modernizing quickly enough.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Will Yun Lee shines as Colonel Moon, a renegade princeling with hovercrafts and rage issues.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Not all marketing The renegade spirit isn't all clever marketing.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Fans will also learn more about Kiara, the Outer Banks' earth-loving renegade Kook.
    — Morgan Smith, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • From the wide-open landscapes of the West and the outback, rose up cowboys and sheriffs, rebels and renegades, miners and mountaineers.
    — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019

renegade

2 of 2 adjective
  • Still, if this is a harbinger of the war to come, these renegade helpers may be a very good sign.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
  • The sprawling dress may have been Diana’s most renegade bridal move.
    — Julie Miller, Vanities, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But on Sunday, the renegade spirit of hip-hop carried the day.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • As the city's most wanted criminals, the renegade band of misfits must fight to clear their names.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • And as the city’s most wanted criminals, this renegade band of misfits must fight to clear their names.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And as the city's most wanted criminals, this renegade band of misfits must fight to clear their names.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But there was something so surprisingly renegade about the movie’s smooch.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The song went on to affix his renegade spirit in fans’ hearts and helped to launch his stratospheric career.
    — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
  • When your mother is Madonna, a renegade spirit runs through your blood by default.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2018
  • The book centers on a renegade Russian who has a new-age submarine at his command.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Stephen Silas, who is a good man but cannot handle the renegade operation that has become.
    — Josh Criswell, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But not all tech startups need funding - and some renegade startup founders work hellbent on being profitable from day one.
    — Quora, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • Xi is losing patience with what China considers a renegade province that needs to come home.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • One incident in 2014 left its walls painted blue and plastered with bizarre renegade art fly posters.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2019
  • The shooter was rumored to belong to a renegade branch of the Black Disciples.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 15 June 2017
  • Then, in 2014, their luck ran out when officials balked at being liable for the renegade skate park and shut it down.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • All because of a renegade Scottish surgeon whose contributions to medicine have saved many millions of lives.
    — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
  • There is still something vaguely renegade about the place—and this promise of adventure and seclusion is precisely why its allure is on the rise.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Many of the renegade directors self-destructed in a blaze of coke and ego, or joined the counter-revolution of the blockbuster eighties.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The Boys follows a group of celebrity superheroes who abuse their powers for their own selfish gains and a renegade group of outlaws who are trying to bring them down.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
  • As a substitute, the district had hired a renegade hippie, Bromley Stokes, who’d recently washed up in town.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • There has been backlash for the pick, which reinforces the Bengals' renegade style under owner Mike Brown.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Known for drug dealing and gun running, renegade motorcycle clubs have laid claim to domains throughout the Sunshine State.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 May 2017
  • The Apex is a squad of renegade children who have turned certain odd facts about the Train into a ferocious cult of violence and anarchy.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • From the punkish bowl cuts to the jagged baby bangs framed by waist-grazing waves, Palau was inspired by renegade women of the ‘60s and ’70s.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Supermarket Sweep was renegade.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Herr was writing about Tim Page, a renegade British photojournalist who was known for getting so close to the action that he was wounded four times.
    — Matt Schudel, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Linson had a renegade spirit and a rock and roll heart, and was part of a new wave of younger filmmakers that included Hal Ashby and Jonathan Demme.
    — Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • How can Mabel, a renegade environmentalist who’s still attached to her childhood happy place, possibly fight this?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The annual event has grown from a renegade underground exhibition into a major cultural fixture, drawing artists and attendees from around the world.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 13 Feb. 2026

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