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Example sentences for "bandits"

Lexicographically close words:
bandies; banding; bandis; bandit; banditry; banditti; bandmaster; bando; bandoleers; bandolier
  1. Once a horseman dashed down the street, and Eulogia wondered if murder had been done in the mountains; the bandits were thick in their fastnesses.

  2. Ay, we can sleep in peace if those murdering bandits are killed!

  3. The number, he said, should be reduced and more care be exercised in the selection; many of the laymen were bandits and the clerics were men of bad character, who sought the office to obtain exemption from their prelates.

  4. Rykov was killed in a fracas with bandits while he was transporting some gold.

  5. Genoa, if you'll pardon the use of this name to signify the planet upon which we reside, will never advance until trade has been freed from these bandits who call themselves lords and barons.

  6. These bandits meant what they said; more, they meant every gesture they made.

  7. The bandits come over and steal all your cattle.

  8. He was known as one of the best shots of all that company of men who pursued criminals and bandits through the State, and drove them over the border.

  9. One firm word, one splendid gesture, and daring raids would have ceased; and there would have been no menace of bandits hereabouts.

  10. Illustration: When I was eighteen years of age, bandits .

  11. One day, when I was eighteen years of age, bandits came and made a raid on our village and, with other fair women, carried me away.

  12. Such bandits as he could not buy he exterminated.

  13. These are and have been the most atrocious of the many bandits with which Mexico is infested.

  14. According to the reliable rumors that have reached us, the bishop fears, and not without good reason, that the populace of Clermont may rise in revolt in order to set the bandits free the moment they arrive in the city of Clermont.

  15. It would be just like them to raise a riot and seek to set the bandits free--while here, at the burg, nothing of the sort need be feared.

  16. It was calculated for its cycle: you could have given no high metaphysical system to peasant-bandits of that type;--you could not take the Upanishads to Afghans or Abyssinians today.

  17. I think we may recognise in all this the hand of a wise old Pompilius from the Sabine hills, at work to keep the life of his Romans, peasant-bandits as they were, clean in the main and sound.

  18. Ah, there is real Great Stuff in that; they are admirable peasant bandits after all!

  19. Knowing the bandits had taken to the middle of the stream, Haines had divided his party.

  20. There were three bandits making the trail, but the three stopped and each took a different direction, one straight up into the hills, one straight down into the valley, and the other off here towards town.

  21. The hold-up of the buckboard and her carrying off by the bandits seemed fantastically impossible.

  22. The three bandits looked thoughtful and munched their pie silently, but the next moment they were startled by the ringing of the electric doorbell, which was heard plainly even in the remote attic.

  23. Bandits we have always been, and bandits we must remain!

  24. Perhaps in all the world there are not three other bandits so terrible and fierce as ourselves," said Victor, proudly.

  25. You can't remain bandits any longer," said she, "because you are now in America.

  26. How long she remained alone in the attic she never knew, but finally she heard the catlike tread of the returning bandits and saw them coming up the stairs in single file.

  27. He has taken us from our beloved Italy, where bandits are highly respected, and brought us to a strange country where we shall not know whom to rob or how much to ask for a ransom.

  28. The bandits seemed greatly bewildered by this announcement.

  29. The two bandits took leave of Madame Bourrat.

  30. That is to say, an accomplice whom the bandits we are after wanted to be rid of.

  31. The two bandits came up to within a yard of him.

  32. For scarcely had he arrived in London when he learned that the bandits had gone off to the United States.

  33. In that noisome lair of the bandits a horrible scene ensued.

  34. One of the bandits planted himself on the little folding seat opposite the trunk: the other bandit mounted to the box seat next the driver.

  35. How could the bandits know of his presence in the trunk?

  36. Fandor was listening with all his ears; but the bandits had little to say; and, when they did speak, their voices were plainly disguised.

  37. You take my house for a resort of bandits and counterfeiters!

  38. If there is a gang of diamond robbers or comic opera bandits in this city I'll bet my hand they could steal the sidewalks without being detected, much less captured.

  39. Behold two bold, bad bandits as your fellow captives.

  40. I saw our escort attacked by the Huguenot bandits called the Avengers of Israel.

  41. The two bandits consulted each other with their eyes.

  42. With nightfall, murderers and bandits take possession of the streets.

  43. The two bandits consulted each other for a moment with their eyes.

  44. It was always well to have some arms in the house in order to repel the attacks of bandits who had of late grown increasingly bold.

  45. The words of the two bandits suited the Franc-Taupin.

  46. The Huguenot bandits will not dare to approach our armed squadrons and light cavalry.

  47. Towards heresy she showed no clemency, and her measures for dealing with bandits and other criminal offenders were excessively severe.

  48. When she ascended the throne, Seville was notorious for its gangs of thieves and criminals of all kinds, while the surrounding country was insecure through the numbers of bandits who waylaid and robbed traders and farmers on the roads.

  49. At the present moment, of the numerous bandits who accompanied him, few are left him.

  50. Do not forget, my friends, that the bandits have a girl with them.

  51. Listen: at the period when I tried to serve that villain, I only believed him to be one of the bandits so common in the Far West.

  52. The three bandits then disappeared in the depths of the cave.

  53. Alas, since that period I have never again seen my mother's sweet face, or my father's kindly smile; henceforth I was alone among the bandits who carried me off.

  54. Although Father Seraphin's attempts to arouse better feelings in the heart of the bandits had failed, he determined to accompany and exhort them to the last moment; he walked on the right of Red Cedar, and Ellen on his left.

  55. I accuse this man of having burnt the house of my father and mother, assassinated my parents, and handed me over to bandits to be brought up in crime," White Gazelle said.

  56. He was a saddler by trade, and also a small farmer, so the products of his industry were just what the warring bandits needed.

  57. But the warring bandits did not pay for what they needed.

  58. Beyond the wounding of one of their number, no impression apparently had been made, whereas the bandits had a sorry loss to contemplate.

  59. That fellow begged very hard to be moved down into that wolf-hole of a place where the Mexican women are, lieutenant, with those two bunged-up bandits to take care of.

  60. One of the wounded bandits is now past praying for.

  61. None of the bandits had a more stupid expression or one less amiable.

  62. One of the bandits was killed, two of the soldiers wounded, and a ball of Perico's, fired at a great distance, killed the commander of the troop.

  63. Surely it would not be difficult for a body of the Carlinos or bandits to dash across the bridge and make prisoners of you all.

  64. Those fellows can't be anything but plain bandits and cattle thieves.

  65. But to my mind they look more like bandits than anything else.

  66. No more had been heard from the Mexican raiders, and it was hoped that those bandits had departed for some other locality along the Rio Grande.

  67. I'll bet some of those Mexican bandits are coming over here!

  68. You see, they have been bothered a great deal for hired help lately on account of the trouble with the Mexican bandits and revolutionists.

  69. Lots of men are afraid to come down here to work for fear some bandits will make a raid across the border and shoot them down.

  70. My companion said to me: "This is where all our bandits have taken refuge?

  71. He slew during his life fourteen gendarmes, burned down the houses of his adversaries, and was, up to the day of his death, the most terrible of all the bandits whose memory we have preserved.

  72. They said that the natives of their own outlying provinces were bandits and cut-throats, practically independent of the Lhasa Government, while the savages beyond the frontier were dangerous people who obeyed no laws.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bandits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.