How to Use hoodlum in a Sentence

hoodlum

noun

• Street hoodlums threw sticks at him and bombed his front porch with bricks.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2023
• Reams said the cook had a helper, nicknamed a hoodlum, who did the heavy lifting and chores.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 15 Feb. 2020
• These two hoodlums deserve to be put away for a very long time.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2017
• He's jumped by a bunch of teen hoodlums who steal his sign and give him a beating in an alley.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019
• But once arrested, they were portrayed by the press as a gang of hoodlums.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
• How was this cutup going to convince as a creature of the night, striking fear in the heart of hoodlums?
  — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
• How was this cutup going to convince as a creature of the night, striking fear in the heart of hoodlums?
  — Vulture, 17 June 2023
• Frankie and his friends, a group of young Coney Island hoodlums without much to do, spend their evenings trolling the boardwalk for babes and bud.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Hernández de Cruceño, however, was new in town, and had the look of a malandro, or hoodlum.
  — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The issue is not too many guns; the issue is too many thugs, hoodlums and savage criminals on our streets.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Bennett was once shot and wounded in a confrontation with a hoodlum.
  — Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
• The issue is too many thugs, hoodlums and savage criminals on our street.
  — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
• That's a bunch of hoodlums getting drunk in a bunk bed situation.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
• In one scene the country-music legend, who portrayed a hoodlum named Johnny Cabot, grabbed Ron and held him hostage.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• And, of course, there’s Mark Wahlberg, an ace actor who parlayed his Calvin-Klein-hoodlum-of-rap image into true movie stardom.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Nov. 2021
• There was plenty to loathe about certain members of the band of criminals who surrounded our hoodlum-in-chief.
  — John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Instead of the track pants and leather jackets that local hoodlums wore to school, their look was a kind of ’50s retro: plaid blazers and polka-dot ties, slacks with suspenders, pressed white shirts, long hair slicked back with too much gel.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• The duo visit the musty apartment of a reclusive language tutor, the elegant suite of a physicist in the employ of the U.S. government, and the shadowy ghetto lair of a brutal young hoodlum.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• For years, Gentile was known to but mostly ignored by FBI and state police mob investigators, who wrote him off as a nickel and dime hoodlum.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• A month before the stabbing, police had banged on Alfred Kiefer’s front door in Southeast Portland, seeking to arrest the 35-year-old hoodlum on extortion charges.
  — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2019
• On another, hoodlums ran through the crowd, whacking protesters with plastic chairs.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• Participants will ride on a bus to view the exteriors of 14 Oak Park and River Forest houses once owned by major hoodlums.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• There have been some teething problems: Vague gossip about injuries, social media gripes from pedestrians about rude young scooter hoodlums, complaints about scofflaws not obeying the rules of the road.
  — al, 10 Jan. 2020
• In the show — which Ferrante, wrote, produced, and presented — the onetime hoodlum used his street credentials to gain superb access to imprisoned gang members around the world.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 11 Aug. 2017
• Tall, slender, rugged-looking, frequently talking in street slang, Cobb sometimes seemed to enjoy acting as a hoodlum.
  — Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• The centerpiece of Laurence Graff’s display window, the stone was famous before the Chicago hoodlums committed what seemed a perfect crime.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but had the homeowners arrived minutes earlier or had the hoodlums opted to attack them, the outcome could have been much worse.
  — Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2018
• The boys’ boredom and anxiety is offset by a visit from their Uncle Louie, a low-level hoodlum who is on the run after stealing from a mobster named Hollywood Harry.
  — courant.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• Also tempting death-by-drug-bear: a pair of kids cutting school and a concerned mother in pursuit, a park ranger and a Smokey Bear-loving wildlife man, and a gang of colorfully dressed hoodlums who patrol the woods stabbing people for loot.
  — WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• Get our daily newsletter Crime was once solid ground for Tories, who mocked liberal opponents for their soft treatment of hoodlums.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024