hoodlums
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
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
An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a former love.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020
Eleanor, who was afraid of strange dogs and jeering women and young hoodlums, went quickly into the diner, clutching her pocketbook and her car keys.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
