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How to use brigand in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word brigand? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Let us dress our ship as befits a brigand who shows her heels to the pursuers.
She imitated the footfalls of the brigand ahead of her, trying not to dislodge gravel or stones.
Will you come again, when you're not roving up and down Italy like a brigand?
Realization hit Alsan like a blow as the brigand walked over to the twins' open coffin.
There was a lot of romanticism involved in this care free, brigand type of life, yet basically, representing nothing more than banditry.
Soon every brigand of note, every pirate and village oaf will declare themselves lord of their fief and kingdom and it will all be up for anyone with the mightiest resource.
The gendarmerie, police, and army eliminated many brigand bands.
Foreign aid workers based in Herat think Mr Khan a brigand, but not of the worst order.
Shah Ashraf halted both the Russian and Turkish onslaughts, but a brigand chief, Nādr Qolī Beg, defeated the Afghans at Dāmghān in October 1729 and drove them from Persia.
The crime strip eventually developed into the more or less exaggerated and romanticized life of the famous brigand, which is the precursor of the early 20th-century detective strip.
His mother, Khamco, formed a brigand band to restore the political and material fortunes of the family, and Ali became a notorious brigand leader.
Examples from Classical Literature
She must see that my interview has been with an English gentleman, and not a brigand chief.
It may be an ignoble thing to lie, but with what other weapon was I to fight this brigand?
The hardware-man looks as if he might be 'touter' to a broken-down brigand.
Then you don't want to look like a Spanish brigand, as you do in that serape.
And it was this ogre, this brigand, this scoundrel Macquart, whom Adelaide had chosen!
What are you going to do with that old brigand you've got locked in the calaboose?
We had no men outside, if that was what the brigand wanted to determine.
And there springs Radicofani, the eagle's eyrie of a brigand brood.
That brigand, said he aside, is capable of filching all my game.
If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, he should be crushed under the wheels.
Thereupon the brigand offers to go along with her, and she accepts his offer.
And now his red and trembling hand went reluctantly to his breast-pocket, and passed a bundle of papers and envelopes to the brigand.
This seems to refer to the profession of brigand and pillager.
It was not like the brigand leader to remain in the background.
Oblivious to the brigand attack, they were in here practising!
The hero of the Palolithic age is the brigand and cut-throat of to-day.
A brigand was crouching at a front corner of the main building!
She swung us diagonally away from both the camp and the brigand ship.
Musolino was a brigand, and Luccheni an anarchist and regicide.
And on the first opportunity he did get into tights, viz., as the brigand.
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