brigand

Example Sentences

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Black and brown police officers fought back against Trump's brigands.

From Salon

The excellent brigand’s hat pasta, strewn with meaty honeycombs of wild morel mushrooms and withered ramps in springtime, turns into a more keenly aromatic dish by June: now it’s chanterelle mushrooms lathered in basil-intensive butter.

From Los Angeles Times

A millennium ago, before the invention of nation-states and police, brigands would have knocked me off quickly.

From The New Yorker

Similarly, an attentive viewer can understand why, in Kurosawa’s ancient Japan, a judge would tend to believe the word of a ghostly samurai over that of a notorious brigand.

From Washington Post

The movie opens in grand fashion as brigands waylay a desert caravan carrying a toddler princess.

From New York Times