Robin Hood
Example Sentences
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Ridge imagined Murrieta as the Robin Hood of El Dorado, a folk hero who sought just retribution against Anglo society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
The Robin Hood legend is one that can always stand up to a retelling, though remaking anything like the ’38 “Adventures of Robin Hood”—at least in the same tone of voice—would result in kitsch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
She’s agreed to consider interviews with a ghostwriter named Wes Easton, who will soon discover why she’s called “the Robin Hood of Roxbury Drive.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
The modern-day Robin Hood story followed mask-wearing highwaymen the Clown and the Wolfman.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025
I head back downstairs, almost tripping over Robin Hood.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
