How to Use hustler in a Sentence

hustler

noun

• His claim is that Xu is a hustler and that kind of hunger is not in your DNA.
  — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
• Frank, a hustler who happens to be straight, wants help with a play and needs a place to spend the night.
  — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• And there’s a black Porsche in that book as well, from which Julian, a hustler with a drug debt, emerges.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• But now many of those hustlers, feeling betrayed, are taking to the streets.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• As far back as Lane can remember, she’s been a hustler.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2022
• As street life turned treacherous, the specter of the hustler, and whether to become one, cast a growing shadow.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2023
• The victim managed to flee with a stab wound to the shoulder, and later saw the man again at the park eyeing other male hustlers.
  — Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
• His father, Bill, was a hustler out in Oakland before Devin was born.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• She has been besieged by hustlers claiming to know her daughter or even to be her daughter.
  — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• She has been besieged by hustlers claiming to know her daughter – or even to be her daughter.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
• Harry is different; harry is a hustler and is smart enough to work through a charted course.
  — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• The outlier is a cue ball signed by pool hustler Minnesota Fats.
  — John Sandman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• Many side hustlers can open a bank account for their business in a matter of minutes online.
  — Rosalie Murphy Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• The other two, a veteran street hustler named Marlo and a teenager named Lil Reek, are up-and-comers.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
• The core of Milam’s appeal is the charismatic narrative of his rise from black-market hustler to mogul.
  — Ezra Marcus, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• The 36-year-old influencer-turned-hustler grew up in North Philadelphia and was raised as one of 38 children.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Well, funnily enough, my mom has always been like a modern-day hustler in wanting to find new ways to grow her money.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 Nov. 2021
• McNairy and Harrington are Cliff and Ricky, two low-level hustlers who split ways after the gory setback.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
• His subjects included hustlers, cross-dressers and drag queens.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• She’s just always been a hustler and used social media to her benefit.
  — D'shonda Brown, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
• From his days growing up as a hustler in Long Beach getting entangled in the drug trade, Sorum not only made it out alive but drummed for some of the monsters of rock.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 Apr. 2022
• The tousle-haired hustler is known for a few things: his lightning-fast vegetable chopping, his manhandling of meat slabs and his untamed mane.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• Played with off-kilter aplomb by Emma Stone, the young Cruella is a hustler, a skilled self-promoter, and an influencer.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• The latter featured a portly cat version of pool hustler Minnesota Fats, playing a game of nine ball to torment a mouse.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2022
• The third of four children, Chet was a natural hustler whose first gig was washing dishes at his Lawndale High School in exchange for lunch.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2022
• Its unnamed city is an ultramodern ruin full of pimps, hustlers and bent cops.
  — Jeff Calder, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
• Postwar Phnom Penh was a ramshackle city of squatters, hustlers, and beggars.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• Getting away with things, much like getting off, has long been one of this great American hustler’s favorite pastimes.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• Growing a harvest of debts and a baby in her belly, can a would-be hustler with the help of her grandmother, grow the biggest weed empire in Spain’s Costa Blanca?
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024