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Example sentences for: thugs

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

He had his troops burn down 70 percent of Serbian houses, passed laws to confiscate Serb property, and allowed gangs of Croat thugs to murder the few elderly Serbs who remained.
She battles and beats the thugs in the pressmen's union who think they, not she, own the Post .
Thugs are thugs and their wives are idiots to stick around and mob business is greasy and seedy, instead of greasy and seedy and fun . There was a sweetness to Tony when he was discovering his inner mensch that made his and everyone else's brutality come off as ironic and incongruous, rather than just brutal.
The view I have heard, not exactly a political program, more like an ethnic slur, is that (fill in the blank) Eastern European ethnic group deserved whatever the Soviets dished out because they were anti-Semitic Hitler-friendly thugs.
His new novel, Toward the End of Time , takes place in a futuristic Massachusetts in which nuclear war has leveled half of civilization, strange new metallic animals are threatening to gobble mankind, government has collapsed, and a gangsterish network of uniformed thugs called (chillingly) FedEx is establishing a government network of its own.