hustling

Example Sentences

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Instead of, you know, being the subject of countless mirth-making hot-takes, including an upcoming HBO adaptation of Mark Chiusano’s book, “The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Hustling out to Rector Street, they saw the point of impact and the ensuing fire — just below where their sister Rosanne worked as an equities trader.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Because, Estrada writes in an email, they were “teens from the South Bronx during the early 1970s, and it literally means, Every Day We’re Hustling to stay alive!”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Hustling is a key part of being a self-employed or gig worker.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2021

Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah