Explore Thugs through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Thugs meaning
plural of thug
Using Thugs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of thug
- In the example corpus, thugs often appears in combinations such as: the thugs, thugs and, political thugs.
Context around Thugs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thugs
- In this selection, "thugs" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, political, hire, murderous, pdp, self and destroyed stand out and add context to how "thugs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adamawa with thugs pdp alleges and and his thugs instead she. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thugs" sits close to words such as abrams, affirmed and altar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thugs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aamir Khan Wanted Mrunal Thakur & Not Fatima Sana Shaikh For Thugs Of Hindostan? (13 words)
Governor Ganduje became governor after late Muhammad Abubakar Rimi who also tolerated political thugs. (14 words)
A critically wounded cop and street riots are courtesy of antifa thugs and maybe Soros dollars. (16 words)
APC plots to invade Adamawa with thugs, PDP alleges (3 days ago) - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa state has accused the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to hire thugs from Kano and Kaduna to disrupt. (42 words)
Chude, a staunch supporter of Labour Party’s Obi was said to have accused Soludo of being responsible for the rigging that allegedly took place during the house of assembly election in Anambra and claimed that thugs were stealing ballot boxes. (41 words)
It is a great pity that Zimbabwe is ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs and a double tragedy that supposedly men and women of the cloth have become these political thugs’ self-appointed political commissars. (38 words)
Aamir Khan Wanted Mrunal Thakur & Not Fatima Sana Shaikh For Thugs Of Hindostan? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
APC plots to invade Adamawa with thugs, PDP alleges (3 days ago) - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa state has accused the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to hire thugs from Kano and Kaduna to disrupt.
It is a great pity that Zimbabwe is ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs and a double tragedy that supposedly men and women of the cloth have become these political thugs’ self-appointed political commissars.
She Lamented that armed thugs are moving in vehicles despite restricted movement, asking that on whose authorities they thugs were allowed to move.
Aamir Khan Wanted Mrunal Thakur & Not Fatima Sana Shaikh For Thugs Of Hindostan?
A critically wounded cop and street riots are courtesy of antifa thugs and maybe Soros dollars.
A crook linked to Spanish villas, ruthless gun thugs and kilos of Class A drugs boasted of making up to £10,000 per day.
Also, in Aluchi Ward, Nasarawa Eggon LGA of Nasarawa State, thugs destroyed materials at the distribution centre thereby disrupting the distribution of materials.
Another resident said the thugs carried out the attack because no security official was attached to the area.
Both the PDP and the ruling APC also claimed that their campaign convoys were attacked last year in Lagos by men suspected to be hired thugs.
By no means does she imitate the tough, scary attitude of her brother-in-law and his thugs -- instead, she is gentle and friendly with Toru, and she gives him emotional support while caring for her niece.
Chude, a staunch supporter of Labour Party’s Obi was said to have accused Soludo of being responsible for the rigging that allegedly took place during the house of assembly election in Anambra and claimed that thugs were stealing ballot boxes.
Ciri is eventually captured by several thugs but is rescued by the group of thieves known as The Rats.
Condemnation of the activities has been swift from local leaders and observers on social media - as thugs boldly shared videos of their own activities online.
Dastmalchian also starred as Polka-Dot Man in James Gunn's in 2021, and he appeared inas one of Joker's thugs, Thomas Schiff.
Dekina local government area in Kogi state on Saturday witnessed widespread violence in many polling units as political thugs attack voters.
Everyone condemned the weekend attack on a young Turkish Cypriot woman in Ayia Napa by thugs.
Expectedly, since Gotham is a cesspool where the worst people in the world survive and thrive, the heroes have a throwdown with low-level thugs and encounter their mystery person, who may hold the key to finding Ollie.
Four masked thugs have been charged with the murder of a teenage boy who was stabbed to death in a 'targeted attack'.
Governor Ganduje became governor after late Muhammad Abubakar Rimi who also tolerated political thugs.
Having been suspended, he went to the office with thugs and vandalised party properties and carted away valuables from the offices.
Common combinations with thugs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the thugs 32×
- thugs and 24×
- political thugs 12×
- armed thugs 7×
- thugs were 7×
- far-right thugs 7×
- of thugs 7×
- his thugs 6×
- as thugs 6×
- these thugs 6×