Sentence examples for goons have been from inspiring English sources

In the past few years reports of clashes between citizens and government-hired goons have been ever more frequent.

His goons have been hard at work trying to intimidate Tsvangirai voters into switching allegiance in case there is a second round.

In the way the country celebrates its professional wrestlers and make-believe mobsters, hockey goons have been immortalized in film ("Slap Shot"), and have even been commended by no less a mainstream authority than Sports Illustrated two years ago for being "a surprisingly honest and amiable bunch" and for abiding by the "unwritten code of the N.H.L. tough guy".

"For two years these goons have been telling us to vacate our houses," says Babu Rao Shailar, a 15-year veteran of the slums who works as a tailor.

These goons have been stanning Bourdain for years, but I'd always appreciated his work from afar.

Picture Cary Grant in Hitchcock's 1959 thriller "North by Northwest" being hustled out of the hotel and into the back seat of a parked car by two goons, having been mistaken for another man.

When Python first appeared, in late 1969, they were new and radical (though not half as new as they liked to think: the Goons had been doing free-form comedy for years).

Every book since Snow Goons has been printed in a larger format with Sundays in color and weekday and Sunday strips larger than they appeared in most newspapers.

After he is released, Jack is transported to the Cool World once again and meets Holli and her goons, who have been encouraging his misled beliefs that he himself created the Cool World.

The misbehaving new SNP MPs, branded "goons" by Gerald Kaufman, have been making me giggle.

Several claim to have been beaten by goons hired by local officials.