How to Use vigilante in a Sentence

vigilante

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And a portrait of Penn as a chain-smoking, truth-seeking vigilante.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wynne knew about the vigilante violence against the homeless, and disapproved of it.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Mayfield’s story revolves around a vigilante group called the Smoke Kings.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But the Marvel vigilante has its eyes set on bigger rivals.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Then Al flips again and orders Jack to get out of town before somebody (possibly Al) goes the vigilante route.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
  • And yes, the rumors are true: Michael Keaton will once again be donning the mask and cowl of Gotham City’s favorite vigilante, which will be its own kind of time travel for those who grew up in the 1980s.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Logs that were placed in the road in an apparent vigilante effort to stop more RVs from parking have simply been pushed into the middle of the road.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • All that grit, grime and urban rot doesn’t come cheap, and bringing Gotham City and its most famous vigilante to life on screen cost a massive $200 million.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Mar. 2022
  • That wouldn’t be great news for the vigilantes betting against these Treasury bonds—and the danger could prevent them from running rampant, for now.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • That some vigilante who wanted justice in the Tylenol murders would attack him.
    — Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • No one wants neighborhood vigilante groups in San Jose.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The death of a teenage girl from pills laced with fentanyl seemingly causes a vigilante to go on a murder spree with McCall as a suspect.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Who better to play the signature vigilante of the Marvel universe?
    — Tres Dean, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Biden is the bond vigilantes’ ally, to the limited extent anybody is.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Mask of the Phantasm dramatized Bruce Wayne's first night out as an unbranded vigilante: all black, no glam.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But the blind lawyer turned vigilante appears for only 98 seconds of screen time during the aforementioned fight scene.
    — David Zimmermann, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Toxin becomes a new ally vigilante that joins with Venom to hunt Xenophage.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Before Batman was a twinkle in Bob Kane's eye, there was Zorro, a masked vigilante with panache and a penchant for dramatic capes.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2021

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