hoodlums
Example Sentences
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“We were hoodlums in a sense, out of our circumstances,” he said during an interview at his Berkeley co-op in May.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
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
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
For a while, Oliver is on the run from both cops and hoodlums and goes around with a shaved head and a fake mustache, and it’s pretty funny.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018
They found it hard to believe that we were studying, and it was even harder to believe that some of us hoodlums were still at school.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
