desperado

How To Use desperado In A Sentence

• 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
• beseeches" the brigand for "his son Onesimus," telling him that now he receives him "forever," and then calls the desperado "our dearly beloved fellow-laborer"! The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
• 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
• IFP deputy chairman Lionel Mtshali on Monday said: "It astonishes us that the ANC leadership in KwaZulu-Natal can allow the premier of this province to be described as a desperado and as ANC Daily News Briefing
• I want it to be a little better than it is (as with Desperado's other title reviewed above, part of the problem may be the lack of an editorial hand), but the pacing is fine so far, and Sudzuka's art is quite lovely (except for Megan's "spaghetti hair"), so I'll stick around to see how it all turns out. Pen-Elayne on the Web
• Brownsville was about the rowdiest town of Texas, which was the most lawless state in the Confederacy; but they declared they had never seen an inoffensive man subjected to insult or annoyance, although the shooting-down and stringing-up systems are much in vogue, being almost a necessity in a thinly-populated state, much frequented by desperadoes driven away from more civilised countries. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
• The game can be played from a number of perspectives including that of the Indians, Mexicans, Americans, or a gang of desperados.
• At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state.
• This entertainment business has been there for several years now and has succeeded in attracting an array of alcoholics, drunks, gamblers, aggressive individuals and desperados of every description.
• Soon, the desperados ' concerns of how and when to split the gold pale in comparison to the dire need to simply survive the strange inhabitants of this haunted mansion.