How to Use goon in a Sentence
- He was beat up by a couple of goons.
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The move prompted a squad of goons to confront the artist.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 2 July 2024
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The goons of evil landowners have come to club the poor for stealing.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
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There were four-foot-tall flames licking at the windows by the time the goons fled.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 June 2017
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There is no trick; the pencil would have made it into the goon’s brain.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
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So the old way was the writer's dream and now Popovich has his goons coming for you.
—Ben Golliver and Michael Lee, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
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The escape doesn’t work out so well, however, and one of the goons gets the jump on Joel.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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But his gambling catches up to him, and a few goons are sent to track him down.
—Robert Daniels, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
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There went the grouper, the goon of the reef, who keeps the population under control.
—Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
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The ideas the goons rioted to suppress had to slink away unheard.
—Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2017
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Chelsea's goons are even tougher than those who have sworn allegiance to Bill and Hill.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 July 2014
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Squads of goons carrying enormous guns line up for Statham to take on one at a time.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
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Then the government’s own goon squads, to Dr. Updale’s alarm, enter the fray.
—Michael Phillips, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
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Hopefully, the goon in the teal shorts who went for a sucker punch to the back of the head gets reprimanded very soon.
—Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 19 June 2019
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Before the show can begin, a new villain emerges named Grape, whose goons, the Sour Bunch, take control of the venue to put on their own show.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
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On November 6, a group called Just Stop Oil sent two goons with hammers to maul the picture.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
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In order to get those goons to switch sides, Hoffa makes a bargain with mafia leaders.
—David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
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Now her former sister-in-law has descended with her goons to hide out in a shack near Sinéad’s home.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
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The new clip focuses solely on Susie, as her goon BFFs show her around her new office.
—Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2021
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The No Limit boss plays a neighborhood goon who gets picked up and harassed by Kurt Russell.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
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Things go awry when the goons get picked up by police, and Lodge and his sister-in-law fail to pick the two out of a lineup in the presence of young Nick, who saw them as well.
—Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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In a sense, Kadyrov and his goons have won, driving the human-rights defenders out of Chechnya.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
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Ward, in a last-ditch attempt at redemption in the eyes of his daughter, takes out the goon, and together the two tumble off the nearest cliff to their deaths.
—Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
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In a trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, our hero is under attack from some goons with guns.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
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Will writing this get you in hot water with the corporate goons of Big Umbrella?
—Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 19 Nov. 2018
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The trio learns these villains are goons for the tyrannical bonobo Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand).
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
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She has been attacked by goons who were hunting for Fassbender.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
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But still, Batgirl was able to hold one goon and set him up for Robin’s final devastating and thrilling flying kick.
—Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
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These are life-and-death stakes, sure, but watching Yen zip through the kitchen dispatching goon after goon telegraphs a chaotic joy, with roots in the Great Stone Face bits of the silent era.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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Djimon Hounsou speaks with a sluggish timbre as the oversized goon of a feline sent to put Hank’s tail between his legs.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
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The stock would go on to lose more than 90% of its value.
—Bre Badham, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
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Then go on a night hike and flip logs to look for some slimy friends.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2024
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Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. on Feb. 24.
—Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2023
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In the spring of 2023, Patrick Nicholas went on trial for the murder of Sarah Yarborough.
—Annabelle Allen, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
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Lawrence North would go on to win the next three 4A championships.
—Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
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There’s a lot of learning that’s going on on the platform.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
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The Yankees went on to win that game seven to five and knocked the Cubs out of the Series the following day.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 May 2024
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That left wildlife experts guessing as to what was going on in the new nest.
—Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
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Cook went on to become a teacher and a novelist, and died last year at the age of 95.
—Rebecca Dube, NBC News, 12 July 2023
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Despite this, the pair went on a date anyway, and the rest is history.
—Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
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Still, the show went on, and hundreds of people gathered in Sevilla, Spain on Nov. 16 for the event.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
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The record went on to win four Grammys, including album of the year.
—Nicole Sands, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
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The pair went on to welcome their daughter, Daisy Dove, in August 2020.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
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The lawsuit went on for over 12 months months and was later withdrawn.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
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On the technical side, there’s more and more s–t going on.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
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Most of those cargoes go on to transit the Suez Canal, but some could end up in Turkey.
—Julian Lee, Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2023
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In the books, Harold goes on a treasure hunt, creates a fairy tale, visits the North Pole, and travels to the sky and the circus.
—Sari Hitchins, Parents, 22 May 2024
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Mizell was supposed to go on tour with Rusty Waters the day after he was killed.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
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Tickets for all shows will go on sale Aug. 16 at 10 a.m. local time.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
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Tickets for all events will go on sale at 9 a.m. Friday through hendrickslive.org.
—Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
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The actors union went on strike in July, weeks after the writers did so.
—Chloe Melas, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
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The wake kept knocking them over – something that went on for about an hour, Carmen said.
—Rosa Flores, CNN, 21 July 2023
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The Ioniq 6 will go on sale this spring, with the Standard Range arriving in the summer.
—Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2023
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This led him to conclude that there must be something going on with us.
—Kwame Christian, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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Tickets go on sale Friday (April 7) at 9 a.m. PT via this link.
—Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
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The pair go on their first date, move in together and marry in Moab, Utah in just under a year.
—Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
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Early-bird tickets go on sale this week at lafoodbowl.com.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
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There’s not a lot of tracking rooms like that, where the singer can see everything that’s going on.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2023
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Dunst went on to thank Cinespia and its founder John Wyatt, who was present to introduce her.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2024
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Photo: Getty Images Schneider went on to become a style icon of the 1970s, but her personal life was marred by tragedy.
—Giacomo Aricò, Vogue, 19 Aug. 2024
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