Example sentences for: vigilante

How can you use “vigilante” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As the taciturn protagonist of vigilante pictures, Eastwood could be a hoot, and his struggle to articulate something clearly beyond his range resulted in the one true multidimensional performance of his career: the aging Secret Service agent of In The Line of Fire (1993).

  • The beauty of The Limey is that it takes a pretty standard pulp formula--wronged gangster turned vigilante avenger--and creates what amounts to an essay on the idea of "distance": from other people, from the effects of our own actions in the past, and from ourselves.

  • It's only after the picture ends that you realize that Welles hasn't really danced with the devil, at least not by the standards of vigilante movies.

  • Not a whodunnit at all, it's more like a postmodern western, the parable of an unruly patriarch driven to madness by a long line of unruly patriarchs before him; an impotent vigilante in search of something--anything--to shoot.

  • One article decries "vigilante justice," and says that the United States erred by declaring itself in effect "free to make its own rules" against an amorphous terrorist network.


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