desperado

Instead of lawn or little potted palms around the pool, there are oversize stands of desperado sage, a fragrant hybrid between white sage and purple sage, growing so untamed they’re nearly spilling into the pool.

After all, who can resist belting along to a vivid piano ballad that rhymes “Silverado” with “desperado?”

But it seems clear that there was no reason to approach him so aggressively, as though he were some armed desperado fleeing a murder scene.

The Special Operations Division of the DEA often goes overseas to capture desperados with elaborate undercover stings.

With his stocky build, unnerving gaze, five o’clock shadow and tightly wound energy, Mr. Persoff specialized in portraying gangland figures, Wild West desperados, bellicose generalissimos and Cold War heavies.