How to Use bounty hunter in a Sentence

bounty hunter

noun
Definition of bounty hunternext
  • Fall in love with the music, the look and bounty hunter Spike Spiegel.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 12 July 2023
  • Notice a scene with the bounty hunter and the Child is on the sock liner.
    — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2020
  • She had been chased by a bounty hunter and two deputies.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The 27-year-old works for SpaceX and also earns a living as a bounty hunter.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The bounty hunter has been welcomed into the Tusken Raiders’ tribe.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In the anime, Faye is a brash and skilled bounty hunter searching for her past.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Rainy says Robinson was working as a bounty hunter at the time of his death.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • It’s also one of the first games to star a woman, the armored bounty hunter Samus Aran.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • Ben leaps to 1980s Los Angeles and finds himself in the body of a bounty hunter in the middle of a search.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The book follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter on a mission to kill a group of rogue androids.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 26 June 2023
  • The bounty hunter just wants to grab the girl and get out of there, but her assignment turns out to be not so simple.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Maybe the supposedly dead bounty hunter will get name-checked in the new movie?
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Stephanie is a, wait for it, bounty hunter in Trenton, New Jersey.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
  • In real life, a group of 100 armed bounty hunters put the uprising down.
    — Ana Paulina Lee, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Back in 2018, news broke that Mangold had been hired to direct a movie about the bounty hunter Boba Fett.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 June 2023
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea shows up as a bounty hunter for some reason, too.
    — cleveland, 27 May 2022
  • But if the defendant prevails, the bounty hunter does not have to return the favor.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Sep. 2021
  • While in the cantina, he's approached by a bounty hunter called Greedo and the two have a confrontation.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul, a bounty hunter on the surface who’s hiding his past.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, a bunch of bounty hunters have been hired specifically to kill the kid.
    — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Lilly, the lone human on Satellite, makes her way as a cabbie by day and a bounty hunter by night.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Book will give Star Wars fans a live-action, big-budget look at how the bounty hunter operates for the first time.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Mary Mendez snapped some photos as her 5-year-old daughters posed with the Boba Fett-like bounty hunter.
    — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • Any defendants who lost would pay the bounty, along with the bounty hunter’s legal fees.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • For this renowned bounty hunter, that means kicking butts and picking up wanted goons.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Fans were given a glimpse of Bliss’ bounty hunter-like costume, a red skin-tugging suit and a gold/black helmet.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Hutt gangsters, bounty hunters, wretched hives of scum and/or villainy, and so on.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Wolves returned to Oregon about two decades ago after being wiped out by bounty hunters in the state 70 years ago.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • So these bounty hunters aren’t really good or bad, right?
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In fairness, Jackson does allow someone who has already been sued by a bounty hunter to argue in that lawsuit that SB 8 is unconstitutional and that the suit should be shut down.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024

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