Explore Mugging through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like assault. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mugging in a sentence
Related words
Mugging meaning
A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.
Synonyms of Mugging
Using Mugging
- The main meaning on this page is: A quick violent robbery of a person, usually in a public place.
- Useful related words include: assault.
- In the example corpus, mugging often appears in combinations such as: of mugging, mugging in, mugging by.
Context around Mugging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mugging
- In this selection, "mugging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, movie, double, ringside, thrice, last and event stand out and add context to how "mugging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a spiritual mugging and accident and mugging associated with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mugging" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mugging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sorry fast fashion, I’m mugging you off. (8 words)
Is Piers Morgan's son mugging him off? (8 words)
Also being added this year is the popular double mugging event. (11 words)
At a gas station, Dumas had apparently been “mean-mugging” people in the car Anderson was in. Another person in that car, 19-year-old Donavan James of Kansas City, admitted to firing several rounds at Dumas’ car. (38 words)
A third teenager was arrested and charged on Wednesday in the murder of Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old Barnard College student who was stabbed during a mugging last December in Morningside Park in northern Manhattan. (36 words)
You can’t guide your children up to a large reflective sculpture to marvel in one of the trademark delights of Chicago without risking God’s self-appointed henchmen subjecting you to a spiritual mugging. (35 words)
Is Piers Morgan's son mugging him off? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
A Dublin man accused of mugging an 88-year-old pensioner who was injured and robbed as he brought savings to his local credit union has been granted bail.
His tenure in his land of origin, Venezuela, bore witness to his being subjected to the harrowing experience of mugging thrice within a span of but thirty days.
Possibly, they’re including mugging under socialising, and listening to next door’s disco records as community.
Y.) claiming to have been the topic of an assassination plot and the sufferer of a mugging on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Some of the muggings were kind of scary and boring and just like, you know, general movie mugging.
A third teenager was arrested and charged on Wednesday in the murder of Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old Barnard College student who was stabbed during a mugging last December in Morningside Park in northern Manhattan.
Logan Marshall-Green starred in a knockout performance as a man fuelled by vengeance after a mugging that killed his wife and left him paralyzed.
Sorry fast fashion, I’m mugging you off.
These sketches are always good for a laugh but this one is a little flat and contains far too much mugging from McKinnon.
Also being added this year is the popular double mugging event.
Dipshit fans were shown at ringside, mugging for the camera with exaggerated celebrations.
Discovered as a young tenor by Joan Sutherland, he went on to a career in Europe and overcame a throat injury from a mugging to return as a baritone.
It’s been a bit of a mugging, in that have dominated possession throughout, but the two Wednesday goals were excellent.
Katherine Jenkins mugging horror: Terrified singer is robbed in street and left in tears after heroically.
The man who was jailed for mugging disabled pensioner Alan Barnes has been handed a community order for driving 'like a bat out of hell' while more than double the drink-drive limit.
You can’t guide your children up to a large reflective sculpture to marvel in one of the trademark delights of Chicago without risking God’s self-appointed henchmen subjecting you to a spiritual mugging.
At a gas station, Dumas had apparently been “mean-mugging” people in the car Anderson was in. Another person in that car, 19-year-old Donavan James of Kansas City, admitted to firing several rounds at Dumas’ car.
He said the terminals will put an end to insecurity, unreliability, accident and mugging associated with the current commercial bus regime in the state.
Is Piers Morgan's son mugging him off?
It has been a long road for Wes and Megan to get together, involving mugging off a lot of people.
Common combinations with mugging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of mugging 4×
- mugging in 2×
- mugging by 2×