rustler

Example Sentences

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The rustler is usually a beekeeper or someone familiar with the transportation of bees.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2022

A rustler helps a rancher drive cattle from Oregon to Wyoming.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2019

Is that a breeze, or could a rustler be lurking there, ready to swathe himself like a ghost?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2018

During a half-century, Haslam has appeared in garb channeling James Dean, a pre-Vegas Elvis, an Arizona cattle rustler, an English punk, a country gentleman, an American biker and a 1960s mod.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2014

Though reserved to the point of being shy, the sheriff was adept at assuming undercover identities, having pretended to be everything from a cow rustler to a counterfeiter.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann