How to Use vigilante in a Sentence

vigilante

noun

• The two were tried by the vigilantes, found guilty and condemned to hang.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• In the Archie comics, the Black Hood is much more an urban vigilante.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2018
• Bear tries to get the Dogs to turn vigilante, but not everyone seems sold on the idea.
  — Kali Simmons, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
• So there’s a double mystery: one, who is the rapist; two, who is the vigilante.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• Yet the bond vigilante crowd doesn’t tend to believe in miracles of the sort to which Taleb refers.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• And no one should be a vigilante out there, taking lives.
  — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2020
• In all of them, the wealthy vigilante’s defining trait is his stoicism.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• That specter alone could provoke the bond vigilante crowd.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• That’s after some five years of playing vigilante all over the world as Ronin.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 20 Sep. 2021
• Some 2,600 vigilantes wheeled a cannon up to the jail on Broadway and seized Casey and Cora.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• At no point does the show bother to show us how Thomas de Geest got from the cabin to Flemish vigilante.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• That may give bond vigilantes a bigger voice on the issue.
  — Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024
• The 22-year-old vigilante was ambushed and killed while on duty.
  — Kainaz Amaria, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• Others see him as a vigilante and police wannabe who never should have been armed in Kenosha in the first place.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2021
• Not far from where the vigilantes were mustered stood the Khairabad slaughterhouse, its brick floor grooved to drain away blood.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2018
• Greg Tate is the vigilante on the other side of AJ’s timing, his best friend in life and afterlife.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• Rather than cripple her, the data made her a vigilante.
  — al, 6 Sep. 2019
• Now, rumors of protests at the bridge and vigilante groups are popping in emails to the sheriff, mayor and county judge.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• In order to even the score with the vigilantes who torched him like a s'more, Freddy stalks their children on and off the titular Elm Street.
  — Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
• The show introduces Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer by day and vigilante by night.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• Batman might be the masked vigilante doing good for the city, but some view the Riddler in a similar light.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2022
• Read about the anonymous vigilante in this Wired profile.
  — Sam Sabin, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
• But Markham’s death appears to be the work of a vigilante who may be linked to the murders of other killers who were acquitted of their heinous crimes.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• And a portrait of Penn as a chain-smoking, truth-seeking vigilante.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
• Clint had spent the five years of their absence going down a very dark path as a violent vigilante.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• And something important to me was the righteousness, like if a cop can do it, why would a vigilante do it?
  — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
• In the 16 years since, the Liam Neeson vigilante B-movie with attitude became its own genre.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
• Caped Crusader is set in the '40s, at the beginning of Batman's vigilante career, and no one knows what to make of him.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 June 2024
• The big picture: But any violence seen as vigilante justice is sure to meet mixed reactions.
  — Erin Alberty, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
• Vengeance and justice have long been intertwined in this Gold Rush outpost, nicknamed Hangtown for its vigilante heritage, and the idea that its daughters were unsafe did not sit well.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025