Thug

//θʌɡ//

"Thug" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The small thug beat up the convenience store employee.

Tom is a thug.

He's nothing more than a common thug.

He threw a punch at the thug.

He's just a small-time thug, but if he had just a little more moxie, he could be a big-time boss.

Jamal is a dangerous thug. He always gets in trouble.

Reading history books, one gets the impression that everyone in the past was a murderous thug.

"He's a thug." "Don't call him that."

Why did Layla run out with that thug?

Sami acted like a thug.

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They call you a land of license—free but to thug and thief.

Every summer brought the prospect of the dragonships snaking their way upriver, each vessel filled with thirty or more rapacious thugs.

I pushed up out of my chaise and headed for the miniten court. Leah handed me her thug as I walked past her.

Mr. Ingleby ascertained at the office—after threading the mazes of passage and staircase as though he expected momently to be Thugged—that his nephew had not yet come.

The report then records the arrest of the whole force of the union paper, the Victor Record, the forced resignation of many other civil officers in the Cripple Creek district who were in sympathy with the miners, […] the severe thugging of many of the well-known labor organizers,

C.C. and Company. Another story about the young American motor-cycle hoodlum gangs: raping, thugging and robbing their way along the roads.

I don’t thug out, but I’m not Wall Street, either. Russell Simmons and Puffy have clothes for this look in the affordable range.

Oh. Besides Allen Iverson, basketball players don’t be thugged out enough for me. I like me a roughneck.

Well, I’d like to see more positive images of black men. Ones that don’t just go on about having a big dick, thugging and bashing on some girl.

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