“Past race costumes saw him dress as a desperado, complete with pistols and bandoleros.”

“Rodriguez wrote a script that imagined Trejo, his thuggish muse in desperado and Spy Kids, as a Mexican Charles Bronson.”

“He was a desperado, and it was said that he had killed at least two men in his time.”

“After creating a disturbance in the Shopping Center, two desperados were retrieved from the jungle by arresting officers.”

“His band of desperados specialized in looting feudal landlords and Mughal treasury.”

“These chronicles became the handbook for future travellers and ironically, for gold prospectors and desperados planning quick gains.”

“At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state.”

“The law-and-order party was preparing to make a clean-up of the desperadoes.”

“This Fox was one of the most conscienceless wretches and desperadoes that ever lived.”