Example sentences for: henchman

How can you use “henchman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sensing opportunity, Ross kept upping the ante, like a Mafia henchman running a protection racket.

  • A partially successful cloning attempt by Dr. Evil's henchman, Number 2 (Robert Wagner), has produced a true heir: a one-eighth Dr. Evil replica (Verne J. Troyer) dubbed "Mini-Me" who's like a distillation of the archvillain's most feral impulses.

  • The cover package reviews the century's top 10 crimes, including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of seven mobsters by Al Capone's henchman; the brutal 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till , which galvanized support for the civil rights movement; and the Manson family rampage , which ended the social experimentation of the '60s on a sour note.

  • Dr. Evil dispatches a new henchman, a 400-plus pound kilt-wearing Scotsman named Fat Bastard (also Myers) to poke a long needle into the frozen Austin's crotch.

  • House Speaker Newt Gingrich compared Reno to Nixon henchman John Mitchell, and threatened to summon her before Congress and investigate whether she was involved.


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