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How to use hustler in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Hustler means one who rushes or hurries; an energetic person. Example: “Both of these people are race hustlers, though not of the same degree.”

Examples of hustler by meaning

nounA charlatan, huckster, grifter, swindler, a scoundrel.

  • Both of these people are race hustlers, though not of the same degree.2018, Ben Shapiro, “Al Sharpton and Corey Stewart: Two Race Hustlers”, in National Review
  • So why were what I consider the usual national race hustler personalities here in Minnesota?2021, Bob Jentges, “Marginalize influence of race hustlers”, in Mankato Free Press

More sentences with hustler

  • “I have to give it to Doug, he is a hustler,” Briana said, eyeing the Venmo.2023, Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly, London: Piatkus, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN. From the entry venmo
  • Being a hustler is about the way one lives one’s life.2013, Gayton McKenzie, A Hustler's Bible, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry outcun
  • A hustler has ambition and a more serious approach to life.2013, Gayton McKenzie, A Hustler's Bible, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry outcun
  • We saw the kind of life bailers and hustlers were living.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry phat
  • I've been an actor, a bartender, a maitre d', and a hustler, without much success at any of them.2002, Vincent Lardo, Lawrence Sanders, McNally's Chance. From the entry been to the rodeo
  • It's certainly no disgrace to have been ripped off by a pretty-faced hustler--who among us has not mistaken nubility for genius?1993 June 11, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Mean Tears”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry nubility
  • Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370. From the entry buttonhook
  • We ducked and dodged law, and jackboys, only to hand our hard earned cash over to another hustler; a hustler greater than us.2011, Hector Stone, Trapstarz, page 29. From the entry jackboy
  • However, the danger of the homme fatal, as embodied in today's boyish male hustler, is that he will leave, disappearing to other loves, other lands.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry homme fatal
  • It was a strange, diverse city: one block would be filled with rednecks in pickup trucks, the next packed with Hollywood hustlers in silk shirts.1988, Richard Derby Reynolds, Cry for War: The Story of Suzan and Michael Carson, page 58. From the entry Hollywood hustler
  • I have noticed that when hustlers upgrade themselves to models (as distinguished from models who have never hustled) they tend to continue being flaky about appointments.2014, Joseph Itiel, A Consumer's Guide to Male Hustlers. From the entry flaky
  • I guess he was tricking with some other hustler a couple of days later and OD'd on one too many poppers—a heart attack in his sleep.2002, Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, Adam Parfrey, Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, page 195. From the entry popper
  • So they put me on the payroll, and I guess Father Paul Shanley in Boston and I were the first to get paid for picking up hustlers!1981 December 12, Robert J. Nelson, quoting Leo Gallant, “Creating a People”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 7. From the entry what you don't know can't hurt you
  • "And every little sneaky infidelity . . . every little back-alley footpadding to find some quickie with a hustler — where does that fit into the code?"1977, Wallace Hamilton, Coming out, page 238. From the entry footpad

Meaning of hustler

  1. noun One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.
  2. noun Somebody who pretends to be an amateur at a game in order to win bets.
  3. noun A pimp.

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Questions about hustler in a sentence

How do you use hustler in a sentence?
Hustler is used as a noun. For example: “Both of these people are race hustlers, though not of the same degree.”
What is a short sentence with hustler?
“A hustler has ambition and a more serious approach to life.”
What does hustler mean?
Hustler means one who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.

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