How to Use vigilante in a Sentence

vigilante

noun
  • That’s my masked vigilante thing!
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That’s my masked vigilante thing!
    — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The two were tried by the vigilantes, found guilty and condemned to hang.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Does that give some gun-carrying vigilante the right to hunt me down?
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 24 Mar. 2012
  • Schreier also teased what might be in store for fans of the vigilante heroes.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In all of them, the wealthy vigilante’s defining trait is his stoicism.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • There were groups of people called patrollers, who were like vigilantes.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Not everyone was so pleased that a bunch of armed vigilantes were patrolling the streets.
    — Eric Markowitz, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2018
  • That’s after some five years of playing vigilante all over the world as Ronin.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Bear tries to get the Dogs to turn vigilante, but not everyone seems sold on the idea.
    — Kali Simmons, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Men get to be the hero, the rogue, the villain, the vigilante, the sidekick, the mentor.
    — Dana Schwartz, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The 22-year-old vigilante was ambushed and killed while on duty.
    — Kainaz Amaria, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • But vigilantes aren't the answer.
    — Bryce Buyakie, IndyStar, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Clint had spent the five years of their absence going down a very dark path as a violent vigilante.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • King is a masked vigilante on a mission to put an end to the group’s pattern of racial violence.
    — Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 7 Nov. 2025
  • At the same time, the film shows a futuristic city where a masked vigilante seeks revenge.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • But for this transit vigilante, that’s OK.
    — Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
  • In the Archie comics, the Black Hood is much more an urban vigilante.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Some Redditors urge vigilante weed-killing as a sort of lawn care self-defense.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Yet the bond vigilante crowd doesn’t tend to believe in miracles of the sort to which Taleb refers.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • One gunman confirmed the vigilantes purchase guns from cartels, but would not say from which group.
    — ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The vigilantes who hanged her were self-serving cattlemen.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Others see him as a vigilante and police wannabe who never should have been armed in Kenosha in the first place.
    — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2021
  • And a portrait of Penn as a chain-smoking, truth-seeking vigilante.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The action takes a turn when a manhunt for a ruthless vigilante becomes a woman hunt.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
  • And something important to me was the righteousness, like if a cop can do it, why would a vigilante do it?
    — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Not far from where the vigilantes were mustered stood the Khairabad slaughterhouse, its brick floor grooved to drain away blood.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • The two become vigilantes while running from police.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Now, rumors of protests at the bridge and vigilante groups are popping in emails to the sheriff, mayor and county judge.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The show introduces Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer by day and vigilante by night.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022

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