On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Hooligans. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Hooligans meaning
plural of hooligan
Using Hooligans
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of hooligan
- In the example corpus, hooligans often appears in combinations such as: football hooligans, the hooligans, hooligans who.
Context around Hooligans
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hooligans
- In this selection, "hooligans" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, football, soccer, opportunistic, rose, arguing and meaning stand out and add context to how "hooligans" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and football hooligans are believed and and soccer hooligans rose to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hooligans" sits close to words such as abner, acquit and adamantly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hooligans
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Who is the leader of these hooligans? (7 words)
We see you light-fingered hooligans; we see you. (9 words)
The hooligans then approached the man’s car and attacked him. (11 words)
Police action in Jamia Millia Islamia during protests against the new citizenship law and the inaction in JNU on Sunday allowing hooligans to go on a rampage in the campus have cast a shadow over the force. (37 words)
West Ham fan Chris Knoll - also known as 'Knollsy' - does not want to be labelled as a hero after claiming he "just did what he had to do" after fending off Dutch hooligans in Alkmaar. (35 words)
Several of the supporters’ coaches were bricked by Chelsea hooligans, meaning the trip back up the M6 was a bit chilly, but City fans didn’t care – they’d had their day out. (33 words)
Who is the leader of these hooligans? (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
Far-Right groups and football hooligans are believed to be organising gatherings via group chats.
Inflation was world’s highest, ordinary people lost their savings and jobs, while crime bosses and soccer hooligans rose to prominence.
I’ve had too many experiences where fellow concertgoers acted like a bunch of hooligans and made the show unpleasant.
Just like most protests that begin with good intentions of getting a message across, the protests in France have been overtaken by opportunistic hooligans.
The force said many of those causing trouble were football hooligans from across the UK, who were prevented from reaching the Cenotaph as a Remembrance service was taking place.
There are bikini-clad yoginis doing ‘downward dog’ poses in temple gateways and half-naked hooligans arguing with traffic police over their lack of a crash-helmet.
The war on Wolverhampton’s Subway Army is revealed in ‘Hunting the Hooligans’ by Mike Layton and Robert Endeacott, priced £6.50 paperback.
West Ham fan Chris Knoll - also known as 'Knollsy' - does not want to be labelled as a hero after claiming he "just did what he had to do" after fending off Dutch hooligans in Alkmaar.
British officers from the Football Policing Unit also arrived in Dublin to identify English football hooligans who might try to defy travel bans and enter the State to cause chaos.
But we kept our composure, waived to the hooligans and sped away.
He helped create the Georgia division of tier 3 in the National Ball Hockey League in which the LaGrange Hooligans are a founding member.
Several of the supporters’ coaches were bricked by Chelsea hooligans, meaning the trip back up the M6 was a bit chilly, but City fans didn’t care – they’d had their day out.
The hooligans then approached the man’s car and attacked him.
We see you light-fingered hooligans; we see you.
Who is the leader of these hooligans?
It’s a safe bet he would have banished any congressional Democrat who even hinted at praising such hooligans to a postal or public works subcommittee.
Many elderly men and women in the community have been rough-handled, beaten and flogged by these hooligans.
Police action in Jamia Millia Islamia during protests against the new citizenship law and the inaction in JNU on Sunday allowing hooligans to go on a rampage in the campus have cast a shadow over the force.
The Hooligans marks a decisive step in the development of this daring, provocative and utterly unique painter.
The Northern States Governors’ Forum has expressed concern that the ongoing protests has been taken over by hooligans, ethno-religious bigots and political marauders bent on destroying the country.
Common combinations with hooligans
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- football hooligans 8×
- the hooligans 8×
- hooligans who 4×
- hooligans were 4×
- of hooligans 3×
- hooligans and 3×
- these hooligans 3×
- hooligans to 3×
- hooligans are 2×
- soccer hooligans 2×