How to Use desperado in a Sentence

desperado

noun

• And the male rider looked the part of a desperado with his white hat & bandana, brown leather chaps, and white duster adorned with blue Cowboys stars.
  — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020
• There's going to be 15 desperados over those two nights.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2019
• The desperadoes are so evil that Dutch (Borgnine) makes a joke of it when someone suggests pausing to give a decent burial to a fallen comrade.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 June 2019
• Buy a California fishing license at Convict Lake, named for a gang of desperadoes who broke out of a Nevada jail in 1871 and met their end in a shootout with lawmen here.
  — Katherine Rodeghier, Dallas News, 16 July 2019
• The desperado appears as a wizened, gun-toting shadow slung across railroad tracks and in the scared whispers of shopkeepers and children.
  — Marisha Pessl, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• For Jessilyn —who now goes by Jesse—the disguise accesses the whiskey-drinking, quick-drawing desperado inside her.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo No one faced more pressure to thrive, aside from those desperados on the roster bubble.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
• Dillinger's family identified the body, but the desperado had recently undergone plastic surgery and dyed his hair black in an attempt to hide his identity.
  — Neal Taflinger, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2017
• At least a half-dozen agents were involved in the case, which used stakeouts, confidential informants, search warrants and wiretaps to gather evidence against these desperados.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2017
• So many of its characters remain recognizable—blustering desperadoes, who believe in their right to act outside the law and then impose rules and strictures on others.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
• Though legally off-limits to commercial exploitation, the lands are under near-constant siege by loggers and other desperados.
  — National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2016
• The film saddles up alongside Nat Love (Jonathan Majors), a desperado looking for vengeance after a traumatic childhood incident.
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
• Instead, an orderly development of the interior—less violent, and less inclined to celebrate the desperado over the peaceful peasant.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• At first glance, Ross McDonnell’s ambrotypes resemble 19th century portraits of desperados.
  — Pete Brook, WIRED, 23 May 2014

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024