rustler

Example Sentences

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The rustler is usually a beekeeper or someone familiar with the transportation of bees.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2022

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

Before being sent to prison, a remorseful Mr. Novak, then 27, sat down with rangers to help them understand the mind of the cattle rustler.

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