How To Use hooligan In A Sentence
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
- Two years ago, he admitted the police had been caught out by a spate of petty hooliganism, but this year he said police leave had been cancelled and extra officers would be on duty until Bonfire Night and beyond.
- Football hooligans ran riot through the town.
- Nowadays it is the footballers who behave like oafs off the field, while rugby players act like hooligans on it.
- Teenage hooligans have been waging a campaign against contractors on a Waterside building site.
- A football hooligan jailed for attempting to murder a man was a danger to the public, according to a police officer who helped to snare him.
- They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo. Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone?
- There was nothing unusual about any of this and no doubt the hooligan gangs of both clubs were eager for more trouble after the game.
- The Japanese authorities had feared an invasion of English hooligans, but there has been little trouble so far.
