Robin Hood

Example Sentences

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After a decade here in Vancouver, next year it moves stateside, to San Diego, where its Robin Hood ops will carry on.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

Mangione has been hailed in some quarters of the internet as a latter-day Robin Hood, fighting against a rigged system on behalf of working people.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

One sculpture transforms the European hero Robin Hood into an African bandit queen who raided slave traders and freed their captives.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

Ridge imagined Murrieta as the Robin Hood of El Dorado, a folk hero who sought just retribution against Anglo society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

She certainly didn’t believe that the prophet Elijah would come through the apartment door any more than she believed Darth Vader, or Robin Hood, or ... or the Easter Bunny, would.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen