How to Use thug in a Sentence

thug

noun

• He was beaten and robbed by street thugs.
• The capo wants to know why his thugs are lying dead in the hallway.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But what these thugs have done to my family is a disgrace.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 16 June 2023
• Because there’s the argument within that cult of thug life, like, who’s a Lo Head and who’s not?
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 14 Aug. 2023
• My dad was a thug, so a lot of my tongue comes from my father, and then my mother learned English through Black folk.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2023
• And sanctions alone are unlikely to get the ruthless thug in Moscow to stop.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Before Dex breaks loose, one thug sings the praises of a special brew, and its flavors of caramel and black currant.
  — oregonlive, 26 Nov. 2019
• With the stature of a coxswain at five foot two, Temple is an unlikely counterweight to two armed thugs.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
• Nasr’s takeover shocks the elderly caretaker and incenses Yara, who dares to stand up to the street thug.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• Flanked by a pair of Tommy gun-toting thugs, the mining mogul taunts the Dutton patriarch and his wife.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• Harley Quinn faces the wrath of narcissistic crime boss Black Mask and every other thug in Gotham.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Descending, one of the thugs noticed me and with another gave chase.
  — Sam Patten, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
• And everybody’s a big-city policeman’s all a crooked thug.
  — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• The second-season premiere of the charming-thug series.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Over the River Kwai, and Sabrina had become a cruel thug.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 June 2019
• In the show, fabulously dressed trans Berliners sing and dance in defiance of Nazi thugs.
  — Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Or the Huascas, the roaming thugs who execute his orders.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024