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Examples of thug in a Sentence
He was beaten and robbed by street thugs.
the Mob boss regularly sent his thugs after people who were slow to pay their debts
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The use of paramilitary thugs marked an escalation of violence.
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The movie, which interweaves several plot lines—a thug attempting to figure out who murdered a beautiful prostitute, a cop with a heart condition trying to protect a stripper from becoming another victim—is all the better for it.
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The Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s political group has hired paid thugs to intimidate voters and stop campaign staff.
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At times, the structure of a Yakuza game, which involves a lot of beating up thugs, can make for weird moments.
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The All-Stars trained and played under the hostile eyes of armed thugs managed by the head of Trujillo’s death squads.
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Cohen won't be suing Daniels or Avenatti, especially not for being called a thug by Avenatti.
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Then, suddenly, a pair of masked thugs burst in and knock out the agent, proceeding to beat up Brooks and drag him away bound and gagged.
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Guzman was one of the thugs who tortured them with an ice pick, before the Americans ultimately were killed.
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