I couldn't endure the notion of those hoodlumslooting the place," he explained.
The hoodlums yelled, and ducked, while Sheila broke into a run away from him.
It wasn't poor enough to offer the universal desperation that gave the gang hoodlums protective coloring, nor rich enough to have major rackets of its own.
Gordon gathered the two hoodlums under his arms and dragged them with him.
Apparently, his reputation had gone ahead of him, since most of the hoodlums had decided pickings would be easier on some beat where the cops had their own secret rackets to attend to, instead of head busting.
The few bars that were still open had been blessed with the sign of some mob, and obviously were well staffed with hoodlumsready to protect the proprietor.
Watching the operation was Jurgens; it was obvious that his hoodlums had been hired for the job.
The hoodlums tossed the man aside easily, and let out a yell.
Uncle Peter, I think it was shameful of you to inflict thosehoodlums on the monks in that monastery in Tibet.
I started toward the buffet, or rather toward the crowd of male and female hoodlums who completely blocked it from my sight.
The trials--beside their Terror function of upholding a minority government--were great public shows for the howling rabble and leering sansculottes, the hoodlums of Paris whom even the masters dared not offend.
Intermingled among them were the favored hoodlums of the Jacobin party, execrating the victims and howling with glee whenever the dread axe fell.
Just the same he's oodles better'n your bunch ofhoodlums that no decent woman'd wipe her one pair of shoes on.
Upon the authority of the city police and firemen, I can state that the fires were started by a crowd of young hoodlums and toughs living in the vicinity, and the strikers were in no way responsible for them.
Most of the trouble was caused by hoodlumsand toughs.
Why, we could beat Pat and his hoodlums with our hands tied behind our backs!
In the country the hoodlums made trouble occasionally.
We made one dash into the crowd, and a wail arose from the bruised and bleeding hoodlums that hung over the town like a nightmare, while we galloped out of it, followed by cries of rage and a mob with rocks and clubs.
There ought to be some ex-hoodlums left in Flushing to echo that sentiment, even after a quarter of a century.
What the hoodlumsof the cities say will hardly bear repetition.
The responsible men of the labor organizations who were present have called on me to say that they had no idea that the hoodlums would take advantage of the meeting to create disorder.
That blatherskite Kearney has led a crowd ofhoodlums up Nob Hill, and it looks as though there would be wild times before the night is over.
I mine orders obey, and mine block of hoodlums kept swept.
He told that crowd of howling hoodlums that these houses here was built with the loot squeezed out of their pockets, whin hiven knows that they wouldn't do enough wurruk in tin thousand years to build wan side of that fince.
We were worse frightened at the fire-bells and the shouting of men in the distance than at the drunken hoodlums who passed by the house.
I made a dash along the edge of the bluff, and was rewarded by flushing a half-dozen hoodlums who rose from behind an outhouse, like quail from a clump of bushes, and hastily scrambled over a fence.
Bands of young hoodlums rushed down the street with blackguardly cries, rudely jostling those who neglected to make way for them.
The trouble came only from the hoodlums who broke off from it in droves to commit violence.
If you want your hoodlums knocked out, you'll have to do it yourself.
The hoodlums don't seem to be looking above wash-houses now, an' most of thim are ready to hunt their holes.
The hoodlumshave taken to their holes, and the Vigilante pick-handles rule the city.
The shouting hoodlums paused at this reinforcement.
A sibilant clamor of excited voices filled the air,--hoarse shouts of men, yells from the hoodlums and shrill chatter from the women and children, roused by the thrill of them.
The hoodlums had led the way to a cul-de-sac of buildings, and were cursing as they scattered here and there in the effort to find a way out.
And at the command and the show of revolvers, the advancing hoodlums swerved aside into the street with a sudden cooling of their ardor for battle.
We can't let that gang of hoodlums beat up anyone who speaks the English language.
He rushed in among his assailants with even greater desperation than before, and two young hoodlums fell before his blows.
Company G of the National Guard and a gang of broad-cloth hoodlums disguised as "Elks" made up the main body of the marchers.
The boy denied having done this, but the hoodlums went into the hotel, ransacked and overturned everything.
The crowd of hoodlums had got a set-back from the boy with the piston-rod arm, it seemed.
Your fireman and that gang of hoodlums hitch together in some way, you mark my words.
Like all crowds, this crowd had its share of hoodlums and roughs who tried to interfere with the women's order of the day.
The suffragists as well as the public at large are thankful that the police department has finally determined to arrest the pickets, instead of allowing them to be mobbed by hoodlums .
A couple of hoodlumstried to kidnap Bob a while ago.
I would expel all thehoodlums whose brutality and cowardice have disgraced it.
Moreover, he knew that Ernie had been carrying a small derringer ever since his experience with the hoodlumsearlier in the season.
In both places, he said, white hoodlums began rioting and killing negroes.
But government by busybodies has neither head nor tail; working outside the law, it becomes lawless; and having no law to support it, it finally depends for its enforcement upon hoodlums and mob rule.
There was no molestation of a single rider by the crowd of hoodlums that followed the parade everywhere.
Tagalog hoodlums as opposed to the uksu (OXO) of the Visayans.
Somebody in Household Furnishings had turned on a couple of fans, too, and a mob of hoodlums were opening cans of paint and throwing them into the fan blades.
Cardon had a burp gun, this time; he emptied the fifty-shot magazine into the hooded hoodlumswho were coming down.
But the gangsters and hoodlums seemed to be able to get hold of all the pistols they wanted, and burp guns, too.
Our hoodlums are as bad and lawless as are to be found anywhere in the United States.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoodlums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
