bandit

[US]/'bændɪt/
[UK]/'bændɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. outlaw, robber

Phrases & Collocations

one-arm bandit

Example Sentences

The desperate bandit's firing at the police!

The bandits laid for him in the dark.

The bandit struggled desperately.

The bandit bared his teeth in an insolent smile.

bandits carried off his mule.

The police frustrated the bandits' attempt to rob the bank.

She aimed a pistol at the bandit point-blank.

The bandits broke into the jewelry and stole near all the valuable necklaces.

The bandits descended on the defenseless village.

He went to the bandits' lair all by himself!

The police frustrated the bandit's attempt to rob the bank.

The bandits hung him by a rope from the branch of a tree.

This is the cottage where the bandits once holed up.

The bandit kicked at the legs of Jack.

Bandits broke into our house and stole all our money.

Bandits sometimes pose difficulties for the police.

The bandit chief surrendered himself to despair and took his own life.

The bandits struggled to tear her away from the safe.

He put a preoccupation with the opportunity to speak, like a bandit squatting on roadside, ready covetously to a highway robbery.

The bandits fled in disorder when they heard that a regiment of soldiers were maching to their den.

Real-world Examples

They keep out bandits and things like that.

Source: Yale University Open Course: European Civilization (Audio Version)

We advised the bandits to surrender themselves to the police.

Source: Liu Yi Breakthrough English Vocabulary 3000

We do not, however, call it a rubbish bandit.

Source: VOA Special January 2022 Collection

But Manny made out like a bandit.

Source: Diary of a Little Kid 1: Haunted House Ideas

Netizens hence mocked these new yogurts as " bandits" .

Source: Intermediate English short passage

The bank was robbed by a gang of bandits.

Source: IELTS vocabulary example sentences

He described those behind the latest abductions as bandits.

Source: BBC World Headlines

She was among the unofficial runners known as bandits.

Source: VOA Special April 2022 Collection

The bandit robbed Ted of all the money he had.

Source: Lai Shixiong Advanced English Vocabulary 3500

The two bandit brothers had disappeared into the San Juan Mountains.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

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