rustler

Example Sentences

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An eccentric gunfighter for hire must protect a cattle baron’s herd from a rustler and his gang.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2021

Is that a breeze, or could a rustler be lurking there, ready to swathe himself like a ghost?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2018

Records show that a rustler named Edward H. Seeley was imprisoned at Wyoming Territorial Prison while Cassidy was there, Pointer said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2011

The rangers have the respect of cattle rustlers; they know this because a rustler said so.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2011

Though reserved to the point of being shy, the sheriff was adept at assuming undercover identities, having pretended to be everything from a cow rustler to a counterfeiter.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann