Sentence examples for a ruffian from inspiring English sources

"I was a ruffian in my youth," was all he ever said.

If he is a ruffian, the MetroStars have quickly realized that he is their ruffian.

As he neared the polls in the city's Fifteenth Ward, which was heavily dominated by the American Party, a ruffian tried to snatch his ballots.

He recalls walking outdoors with his daughter, slashing at the underbrush, until she told him, "Father, be courteous, or the forest won't know you from a ruffian".

Benjamin Weaver -- a ruffian for hire in 18th-century London -- was framed for a murder in Liss's first historical novel, "A Conspiracy of Paper" (2000).

Theo Hanson, a vice president of SoCal Pinzgauers, an importer, said, "It's a ruffian vehicle, the unique beast of the world".

When last seen at a New York track, Mandy's Gold was a speed-crazed filly who folded at seven furlongs, a quality that would have led to sure defeat in yesterday's mile-and-a-sixteenth Ruffian Handicap at Belmont.

(A side note to readers: Dictionary.com defines the word "ruffian" as "a tough, lawless person; roughneck; bully").

The Springfield Republic suggested that the author had "no sympathies beyond the circles of wealth and refinement", from which "the workingman is either a murderous ruffian, or a senseless dupe, or a stolid, well-meaning drudge, while the man of wealth is, necessarily, a refined, cultivated hero, handsome, stylish, fascinating".

Gutiérrez had gone on television to call the rapper a sinverguenza — a shameless ruffian — and to say that he should have brought flowers to Escobar's victims instead.

The film was a portmanteau of three short stories had Rajinikanth playing a small character in the last segment where he appears as a village ruffian who rapes a blind woman in the absence of her husband.