desperado

How To Use desperado In A Sentence

• The joint was hopping with all kinds of low-lifes and desperados.
• The title of "desperado," "Negro murderer," is very easily obtained in the South. " Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers
• `I cannot say I approve of having such a desperado within the Town. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
• If LTC Shaffer such a "desperado," why did he get a security clearance in the first place and why did it keep getting renewed? Danger Able Danger (re-edited)
• He'd wasted valuable years in failing to come here sooner, and learning this essential fact about himself: that he was no desperado at all. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
• desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town
• Beef for the desperado, he thought, and selected Butrick's Steak House from the eating places available in the Mall. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
• Lately a child in the other cabin was taken ill, and though there were idle men and horses at hand, it was only the "desperado" who rode sixty miles in "the shortest time ever made" to bring the doctor. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
• Watson's house, and took him from his bed, amid screams of 'murder' from his wife and seven children; but the only reply the wife and children received at the hands of the desperadoes was a beating. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences
• PENHAUL (on camera): And as the countdown to the January 30 elections continues, government officials believe the resistance fighters whom they describe as desperadoes will step up their sabotage campaign. CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2004