vigilante

Example Sentences

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This has led most settlements in rural areas to set up vigilante groups – small bands of armed men who protect their villages.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

He insists that he isn’t “a one-man vigilante committee, going around trying to get people to take their feet off train seats. I suppose I’ve done it only about 10 times.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Indeed, a nemesis dismisses John Cena’s namesake vigilante, whose real name is Chris Smith, as “a jingoistic garbage person with the musical taste of the next-door bully from ‘Toy Story.’”

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025

She had a starring role in Josh Margolin’s 2024 movie “Thelma,” an action comedy about an unlikely 93-year-old vigilante who jumps on a motorized scooter to reclaim the money she lost in a scam.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

She saw herself as a lone vigilante, a superhero in repose, a spy.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart