Brigands is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Brigands meaning
plural of brigand
Using Brigands
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of brigand
- In the example corpus, brigands often appears in combinations such as: of brigands, the brigands, and brigands.
Context around Brigands
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brigands
- In this selection, "brigands" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, greek, mongolian, ruling, forced and preying stand out and add context to how "brigands" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and his brigands under his and as the brigands forced out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brigands" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brigands
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They Called Us the Brigands. (5 words)
A small band of brigands is holding this country to ransom. (11 words)
His children have disappeared, while the land is ravaged by monsters and brigands. (13 words)
As he repeatedly expressed in his nonfiction essays, Anderson firmly held that going into space was not an unnecessary luxury but an existential need, and that abandoning space would doom humanity to "a society of brigands ruling over peasants". (39 words)
For the next four months, a group of recently freed slaves known as the Brigands forced out not only the British army, but every white slave-owner from the island (coloured slave owners were left alone, as in Haiti ). (39 words)
The plaintiff could swear to his loss by brigands, the price paid for a slave purchased abroad, or the sum due to him; but great stress was laid on the production of written evidence. (34 words)
Example sentences (15)
He explained that Yadi and his brigands under his command had been unleashing terror on citizens in the Kidandan/Galadimawa areas of Giwa LGA.
A small band of brigands is holding this country to ransom.
It is the reason I am strained by the flurry of condemnation of the request by Miyetti Allah to help in fending off the brigands from the south-west.
Her sovereignty is diminished and dispersed into armed and arming power centres and brigands.
Until we have a government which is ready to regulate in the public interest, these brigands will continue to behave as if the world is their oyster.
However, he was the one who told the security agencies where to go and pick up the corpses of Buharin Daji and the six other brigands.
As he repeatedly expressed in his nonfiction essays, Anderson firmly held that going into space was not an unnecessary luxury but an existential need, and that abandoning space would doom humanity to "a society of brigands ruling over peasants".
Before he could take delivery, French sailors had to fight Greek brigands for possession.
For the next four months, a group of recently freed slaves known as the Brigands forced out not only the British army, but every white slave-owner from the island (coloured slave owners were left alone, as in Haiti ).
His children have disappeared, while the land is ravaged by monsters and brigands.
Roy Chapman Andrews: famous explorer, dinosaur hunter, exemplar of Anglo-Saxon virtues, crack shot, fighter of Mongolian brigands, the man who created the metaphor of 'Outer Mongolia' as denoting any exceedingly remote place.
The increased volume of shipping traffic also could sustain a large body of brigands preying upon it.
The plaintiff could swear to his loss by brigands, the price paid for a slave purchased abroad, or the sum due to him; but great stress was laid on the production of written evidence.
They Called Us the Brigands.
They mounted machine guns on them Band of Brigands p 59 and as these excursions became increasingly dangerous, they improvised boiler plate armoring on the vehicles provided by a local shipbuilder.
Common combinations with brigands
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of brigands 4×
- the brigands 3×
- and brigands 2×
- brigands the 2×