How to Use vigilante in a Sentence

vigilante

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the Dark: The series about a blind vigilante (not Daredevil) will also end with season four.
  — Whitney Perry, Glamour, 13 May 2022
• But where is the line between good Samaritan and vigilante?
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• Yes, the decline of society leads him to become a vigilante.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2019
• Wynne knew about the vigilante violence against the homeless, and disapproved of it.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Tuesday night, a 17-year-old, said to be a white vigilante, shot and killed two protesters and injured a third, in sight of police and in front of cameras.
  — Lorraine Ali, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• Mayfield’s story revolves around a vigilante group called the Smoke Kings.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• There are rumors of a vigilante who dresses like a bat, but most people dismiss them.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
• But the Marvel vigilante has its eyes set on bigger rivals.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Feb. 2022
• Junius offered that in San Francisco, vigilante groups would have dragged the arsonists into the street and hanged them by now.
  — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2024
• That’s the foolproof diet for growing an average Joe into a political vigilante, and Trump and crew has mastered how best to serve that meal, steaming hot and full of lies.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024