How to Use goon in a Sentence

goon

1 of 2 noun

• He was beat up by a couple of goons.
• The goons of evil landowners have come to club the poor for stealing.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
• There were four-foot-tall flames licking at the windows by the time the goons fled.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 June 2017
• There is no trick; the pencil would have made it into the goon’s brain.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There went the grouper, the goon of the reef, who keeps the population under control.
  — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• The ideas the goons rioted to suppress had to slink away unheard.
  — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2017
• Chelsea's goons are even tougher than those who have sworn allegiance to Bill and Hill.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 July 2014
• Squads of goons carrying enormous guns line up for Statham to take on one at a time.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
• Then the government’s own goon squads, to Dr. Updale’s alarm, enter the fray.
  — Michael Phillips, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In order to get those goons to switch sides, Hoffa makes a bargain with mafia leaders.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The new clip focuses solely on Susie, as her goon BFFs show her around her new office.
  — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2021
• The No Limit boss plays a neighborhood goon who gets picked up and harassed by Kurt Russell.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• 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
• In a sense, Kadyrov and his goons have won, driving the human-rights defenders out of Chechnya.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
• 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
• In a trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, our hero is under attack from some goons with guns.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
• Will writing this get you in hot water with the corporate goons of Big Umbrella?
  — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 19 Nov. 2018
• She has been attacked by goons who were hunting for Fassbender.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Cartman declares that his favorite Avalanche player is surly goon Claude Lemieux.
  — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
• At meetings government goons take photographs and ask for copies of the agenda.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• From Dreamer: Hypothetically, who would be the goon on the Reds?
  — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2018

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2 of 2 verb

• The stock would go on to lose more than 90% of its value.
  — Bre Badham, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• In the spring of 2023, Patrick Nicholas went on trial for the murder of Sarah Yarborough.
  — Annabelle Allen, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
• There’s a lot of learning that’s going on on the platform.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
• That left wildlife experts guessing as to what was going on in the new nest.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Despite this, the pair went on a date anyway, and the rest is history.
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The pair went on to welcome their daughter, Daisy Dove, in August 2020.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• The lawsuit went on for over 12 months months and was later withdrawn.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• On the technical side, there’s more and more s–t going on.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
• Mizell was supposed to go on tour with Rusty Waters the day after he was killed.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
• The actors union went on strike in July, weeks after the writers did so.
  — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• The wake kept knocking them over – something that went on for about an hour, Carmen said.
  — Rosa Flores, CNN, 21 July 2023
• This led him to conclude that there must be something going on with us.
  — Kwame Christian, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Tickets go on sale Friday (April 7) at 9 a.m. PT via this link.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at D'Amelio Footwear?
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
• There seems to be an immunologic thing going on in the brain.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Thompson went on to lose to Baldwin by nearly 6 points.
  — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2024
• Disney then went on to spend millions on an Oscar campaign for the film.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
• Tickets for the tour go on sale to the general public on May 17 at 10 a.m. local time.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 10 May 2024
• Meanwhile, Dennings would go on to date singer Josh Groban later that fall.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• As time goes on, though, more Wisconsinites like Frye are unable to freely drink the water that comes out of their tap.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
• The only other element to that is that there was a war going on.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Sherman was set to go on trial Tuesday, court records show.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
• He’s been my stable force over the last few years with everything going on.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
• Kupp went on to become a rookie starter alongside Robert Woods and Sammy Watkins.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• The film debuted at Sundance this year and went on to achieve global acclaim, winning a slew of awards along the way.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
• Free play doesn’t go on a résumé, but being on a traveling sports team might.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Here’s a quick summary of what’s going on with Macy’s and who the investors are that are trying to buy it.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023

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