How to Use hustler in a Sentence

hustler

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  • His claim is that Xu is a hustler and that kind of hunger is not in your DNA.
    — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Frank, a hustler who happens to be straight, wants help with a play and needs a place to spend the night.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • And there’s a black Porsche in that book as well, from which Julian, a hustler with a drug debt, emerges.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • But now many of those hustlers, feeling betrayed, are taking to the streets.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • As far back as Lane can remember, she’s been a hustler.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2022
  • As street life turned treacherous, the specter of the hustler, and whether to become one, cast a growing shadow.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The victim managed to flee with a stab wound to the shoulder, and later saw the man again at the park eyeing other male hustlers.
    — Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
  • His father, Bill, was a hustler out in Oakland before Devin was born.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The actor stars as the protagonist of the series, a hustler named Chicken Man.
    — André Wheeler, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • She has been besieged by hustlers claiming to know her daughter or even to be her daughter.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • She has been besieged by hustlers claiming to know her daughter – or even to be her daughter.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • Harry is different; harry is a hustler and is smart enough to work through a charted course.
    — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The outlier is a cue ball signed by pool hustler Minnesota Fats.
    — John Sandman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Many side hustlers can open a bank account for their business in a matter of minutes online.
    — Rosalie Murphy Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The other two, a veteran street hustler named Marlo and a teenager named Lil Reek, are up-and-comers.
    — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The Wiz was the street corner hustler who flashed his gold chains, made big promises, betrayed people who trusted him, and never looked back.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The core of Milam’s appeal is the charismatic narrative of his rise from black-market hustler to mogul.
    — Ezra Marcus, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The 36-year-old influencer-turned-hustler grew up in North Philadelphia and was raised as one of 38 children.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Well, funnily enough, my mom has always been like a modern-day hustler in wanting to find new ways to grow her money.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 Nov. 2021
  • McNairy and Harrington are Cliff and Ricky, two low-level hustlers who split ways after the gory setback.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • His subjects included hustlers, cross-dressers and drag queens.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • She’s just always been a hustler and used social media to her benefit.
    — D'shonda Brown, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
  • From his days growing up as a hustler in Long Beach getting entangled in the drug trade, Sorum not only made it out alive but drummed for some of the monsters of rock.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The tousle-haired hustler is known for a few things: his lightning-fast vegetable chopping, his manhandling of meat slabs and his untamed mane.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • Played with off-kilter aplomb by Emma Stone, the young Cruella is a hustler, a skilled self-promoter, and an influencer.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • The latter featured a portly cat version of pool hustler Minnesota Fats, playing a game of nine ball to torment a mouse.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The third of four children, Chet was a natural hustler whose first gig was washing dishes at his Lawndale High School in exchange for lunch.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In a career spanning over two decades, Saint John’s relentless hustler mindset has pushed her to shatter glass ceilings time and again.
    — Maneet Ahuja, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The historic match also attracted mink-coat-wearing hustlers and their lavish entourages.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

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