Example Sentences

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Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns described those involved in the singing as "mindless hoodlums" and called for the police to investigate the matter.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2022

These coyotes are roving the streets in packs, like unrepentant hoodlums looking for a mark.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2022

The film’s high-water mark, shot with a spellbinding fluidity in a housing project, witnesses Yen’s balletic body jumping, swinging and careening through an entire neighborhood of hoodlums.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021

It was all sticks and spears and hoodlums scaling walls, castle-siege style.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2021

It both frightened and saddened me to see Link among those hoodlums.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals