How to Use hooligan in a Sentence

hooligan

noun
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  • Mama has a clear sense of right and wrong, tasteful and tacky, raised right and hooligan.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The hooligans forced officials to postpone the game and clear the arena.
    — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Thousands of bald eagles arrive early in the spring to feast on the hooligan.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Sure, there were the local drunks, the teenage hooligans who tortured stray cats, but even these wayward bees had a place in the hive.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There's another group of hooligans who step into their bra like a skirt and pull it all the way up to their boobs.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 28 Mar. 2019
  • The film has a cast of thousands of depraved hooligan bikers with rusty weapons and rotten teeth.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • As McCarthy’s untamed hooligans steer the ship of state toward the chop, Democrats would be wise to stick with this instinct.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In their place is Rally, which sits at the tail-out hooligan end of the spectrum, atop Strada (street), Sport, and Corsa (track).
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
  • When behaving less like a hooligan, the CX-T grips, goes and shrugs off anything the rally course can throw at it.
    — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Cozy was probably on their level in terms of being a bit of a hooligan.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The hooligan was captured in a picture wearing a gray t-shirt, Nike shorts and white sneakers, cop said.
    — Sam Raskin, Fox News, 26 July 2021
  • While Sport mode is fun for playing a hooligan, Comfort is a better fit for this Mini day to day.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Wanting to see that happen more than most were the diehard followers, the hooligans, both in Britain and in the rest of Europe, whose brawling tarnished the game.
    — Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2016
  • In the aftermath of Sunday, much has been said on the nuances between a fan, a hooligan, and a criminal.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 July 2021
  • What happens when these sorts of hooligans get thrown into the mix in an evacuation?
    — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2012
  • In his youth the rapper, born Ivan Dremin, was briefly drawn into the far-right soccer hooligan culture in his hometown of Ufa in Russia’s south.
    — John Arterbury, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Does the world, in all its variety, contain any curling hooligans?
    — Chuck Culpepper, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2018
  • And just like that, thanks to these local hooligans, Halloween costumes became scary, spooky, funny, and creative all at the same time.
    — Marissa Gold, Country Living, 24 July 2017
  • But the jeering of Gundogan didn't appear to be restricted to right-wing hooligans.
    — Ciaran Fahey, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • But if you, like me, consider your blow-dryer among your five best friends, then there are solutions for hooligans like us.
    — Tatjana Freund, Marie Claire, 6 May 2020
  • A small group of Villa fans were set upon by hooligans, outside O'Reilley's pub in Dusseldorf.
    — SI.com, 21 July 2017
  • Monaco was in the second division and bereft of funds, while PSG was dealing with a major hooligan problem.
    — Jerome Pugmire, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Fears about hooligan violence have proven to be unfounded so far.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 29 June 2018
  • Some hooligans did ultimately commit war crimes in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, but that is not what Blattman argues.
    — Bridget L. Coggins, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • In the wee hours of Feb. 2, a group of six intoxicated hooligans threw snowballs at the Rabbit Ears Motel sign and tried to hoist one of their crew onto the historic sign to take a photo.
    — Steamboat Today, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Russia’s soccer hooligans, usually a vicious group, are nowhere to be seen.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • Cohen played a soccer hooligan who finds out his brother is an assassin.
    — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 7 Aug. 2018
  • This kind of snarling, vicious hooligan of a machine will soon depart the world, a final chapter in motoring’s Old Testament.
    — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The elder Kleist not only welcomed the demise of the Weimar Republic, but faulted the Nazis for being too incompetent a band of hooligans to dismantle it.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • In June, a bunch of pro-soda-tax hooligans hollered a state Senate committee meeting in City Hall into submission.
    — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 28 Aug. 2017

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