How to Use thug in a Sentence

thug

noun

• He was beaten and robbed by street thugs.
• The street thugs, the drugs, the knives and the guns, are alien to him.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 28 June 2024
• But in brushing aside the clerk, the thug put the clerk behind him.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 Feb. 2018
• He could have been attacked by the same thugs who robbed and roughed up the man in the road.
  — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 23 Mar. 2018
• The capo wants to know why his thugs are lying dead in the hallway.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
• Yes, some of the thugs were displaying the flag with the swastika on it.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• Kennedy was not used to dealing with a thug like Khrushchev.
  — Eli Stokols, latimes.com, 9 June 2018
• The truck isn’t fixed, but Walt is confronted by the judge’s thugs.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 7 June 2024
• At two o’clock in the morning, the hooded thugs would come burn a cross on our hill.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• But he was supposed to look like a big thug, like muscle for the mob.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2022
• But for weeks, he was painted as a brute and a thug in the trial of the three White men who killed him.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
• The band moved out when a street thug used an ax to break down the wall and steal all their instruments.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• Local thug, Dodger, has been trying to take down the center from the start.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 21 Nov. 2019
• Mike was bleeding to death by the side of the road, too, after being stabbed by some thugs.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
• Now, those thugs are convinced Joe knows where the loot is hidden.
  — Time, 30 June 2023
• And yes, Ryan is within his rights to tell Gianforte, the thug, to pound sand.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 May 2017
• In all that time, none of his co-workers figured out that Shaw was a racist thug?
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 22 Jan. 2018
• Make no mistake – Maduro and his gang of thugs pose a problem for the entire world.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• But what bothers me about this is, don't take the side of a thug who kills his opponents.
  — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
• Last June, Aunt Maggie got out of her car in the church parking lot and was knocked down by an armed thug.
  — Larry Elder, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
• The use of the word thug is a part of that history and continuum.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2020
• These are good young men who have been portrayed as thugs by virtue of this lawsuit.
  — Christy Gutowski, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• If that was a scene from a movie, that thug isn’t going to explain himself.
  — vanityfair.com, 27 June 2017
• Lemons explained, citing the default stereotypes of the gangster and the thug.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 26 June 2017
• Our bus [was] surrounded at a rest stop on the Mason-Dixon Line by a White mob, thugs.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Instead, the figure comes crashing through the window, like some thug in a cop thriller.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 July 2023
• But his end is lots of churches, lots of thugs, lots of killings, lots of madness going on on that side.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
• Most people will not watch A Clockwork Orange and leave the theater a rapist or a killer or a thug.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• And there are also old-school mobsters, henchmen and thugs.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• His thug military’s attacks — and those of his thug street enforcers known as colectivos — on Venezuelans who’ve taken to the streets to protest his Gómez-ish despotism?
  — Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024