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How to use mugger in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Mugger means a person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place. Example: “The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.”

More sentences with mugger

  • The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.From the entry back
  • She put up a fight when the mugger tried to steal her purse.From the entry put up a fight
  • The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.From the entry edge
  • Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.From the entry assail
  • Her choice at the line-up proved to be erroneous, as she had only seen the mugger for an instant.From the entry erroneous
  • I was just walking down the road, minding my own business, when I was attacked by a mugger.From the entry mind one's own business
  • The American sandbagger, like so many others (including the mugger), evoked the street robber's violent technique.2011 June 2, Jonathon Green, Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry sandbagger
  • These are the muggers and beater-uppers, and car thieves and burglars and rapists, assaulters, and so on.1965, Hearings [Agriculture dept.]. From the entry beater-upper
  • Twoccers joined muggers in the panoply of folk devils.2024, Barry Godfrey, Alexandra Godfrey, “Hoodies”, in The Criminal Classes: Who Does Society Fear and Why?, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry twoccer
  • If you want your pack to be a deterrent against burglars or muggers, forget about small dogs, yappers though they be.2004, Theresa Mancus, Who moved my bone?: a guide for multi-dog households, page 25. From the entry yapper
  • In a classic study imprisoned muggers were asked to rate the muggability of people by simply watching them walk down the street.2017, Michael J. Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs to Know, page 214. From the entry nonsynchronous
  • They asked the muggers which of the 60 people in the films they considered easy mark or most muggable and which ones they would stay away from.2012, Jerome H. Blass, The Family Counselor, page 150. From the entry muggable
  • At the lowest end of the scale are petty criminals, shoplifters, sneak thieves, joyriders, muggers (or 'street robbers', as they are now called) and gas-meter bandits.2011, Razor Smith, A Rusty Gun. From the entry gas meter bandit
  • The only time I was "approached" by a so called mugger was on the Gravigny Balizy stop THEN I had to spend 4 zarking hours in a zarking police station.2002, major kong, “apartments in wicker park etc..”, in chi.general (Usenet). From the entry zarking

Meaning of mugger

  1. noun A person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.
  2. noun A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.
  3. noun A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

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Questions about mugger in a sentence

How do you use mugger in a sentence?
Mugger is used as a noun. For example: “The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.”
What is a short sentence with mugger?
“Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.”
What does mugger mean?
Mugger means a person who assaults and robs others, especially in a public place.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mugger (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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