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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those groups include the Proud Boys, neo-Nazi militias, and other vigilante groups.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Whose lives, and how they would be saved, was unclear, but the message fit the tone of the convoy event: urgent, righteous, and with a hint of vigilante menace.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Now, with the U.S.’s national debt and deficit both at historic highs, Yardeni believes bond vigilantes are once again out in force.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • And now, as Trump prepares to take office in January, Foley isn’t the only one in this space who sees a place for vigilantes on the border.
    Tess Owen, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Some people have criticized Penny as a white vigilante killer of a Black man who wasn't armed and hadn't touched anyone on the subway during the incident.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024

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