Example Sentences

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There are gold mines and roving banditti; mules are branded, and dung is hauled to smoke out grasshoppers.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2018

One internal British memo portrayed him after victory as demanding the runaways be returned "with all the grossness and ferocity of a captain of banditti".

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2017

Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Italians idolize Grand Prix drivers, artists, novelists and occasionally Sicilian banditti.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, you are the worthy old gentleman I rescued from these rascal banditti.

From The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts by O'Keeffe, John