rustler
Example Sentences
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An eccentric gunfighter for hire must protect a cattle baron’s herd from a rustler and his gang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2021
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
“He is definitely” a serial cattle rustler, Heatly said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2011
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
