Example sentences for: hoodlum

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

  • The WP runs an op-ed about the movie "Hoodlum" over the by-line of Thomas E.L.

  • ' In the underworld, apparently, it came to be applied, contemptuously, to a whole range of people, mostly young: apprentice hobo, inexpert hoodlum, punk, nance, sneak, informer, and so on.

  • Hoodlum , directed by Bill Duke, tells the story of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, a black gangster who did battle with mobster Dutch Schultz in the 1930s.

  • Similarly, rap is the logical consequence of pop's 30-year promotion of street cred over music: the reduction of the tune to a banal pneumatic backing track, the debasement of lyric-writing to a formless laundry list of half-baked hoodlum exhibitionism.

  • Hoodlum 's Dewey (William Atherton) bears little resemblance to the real prosecutor, district attorney, governor, and failed presidential candidate.


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