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How to use ruffian in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ruffian? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The ruffian casual laughs at him, and sings funny and oftentimes libellous songs concerning him as he breaks stones or picks oakum.
Though he's not initially invited, a wild ruffian named Kikuchiyo insinuates himself into the ranks of the warrior class.
Whenever he sees this colour, he turns into a raging, seething, out-of-control ruffian!
The ruffian took the entire brunt of the fall, cushioning the impact somewhat for Trrol and simultaneously throwing up jets of dust and detritus.
We know the governor, despite his popularity and his toe-dips into bipartisanship, has a reputation as a ruffian.
The ruffian kept his head, and though the dog's teeth were in his shoulder, he managed to get his right hand free.
Vertbaudet Ski Boots: £17.25, vertbaudet.co.uk The rock-solid soles and toes may not suit all kids, but if your young ruffian loves nothing more than to kick his way through every snowdrift then they're a bargain.
Nowadays, it has a certain ruffian charm with hawkers trying to tempt kids and honeymooners with sweets, helium balloons, and horse and carriage rides.
An attempt to reconcile the reformists and the revolutionaries became hopeless by 1900: Sun was slighted as a secret-society ruffian, while the reformists were more influential among the Chinese in Japan and the Japanese.
A local ruffian jogs your arm and spills red wine over the lady's dress.
What more exciting than a ruffian in St. Giles's, visited constantly by a young lady from Belgravia? What more stirring than the contrasts of society?
Examples from Classical Literature
It is you're the ruffian to him, snubbing him when he speaks good-naturedly to you.
Upon him the defiant ruffian turned the forces of his sulfurous hate, full-gush.
I certainly was bound by no law to allow a ruffian to cut me down, unresisting.
I demand to have the ruffian kept out of my way, and out of the way of all decent people.
The ruffian seemed to have lapsed into a reverie, or else he slept with open eyes.
Closer and closer pressed the mob, inflamed and urged on by the ruffian, burd.
And old Judge Priest came with him, and both of them lunged forward over the seatback at the ruffian, three feet away.
Returning from a visit at a late hour, by a lonely road, he was suddenly assailed by a powerful ruffian who tried to garrot him.
He closed with the ruffian, grappled him by the throat, and flung him on his back.
There was a night riot in the streets of ILO, knives gleamed in ruffian hands, curses and blasphemy fell from sodden lips.
Then the ruffian turned, slowly dragging her foot by foot into the marshland.
He'd murther her, the ruffian 'av he cotched her another night in his dhrunkenness.
There was a man who looked like a sensational ruffian who boarded us one morning at porto velho, and said he had come to find me.
Why then he is ruffe low, a ruffian, a bold adventurous errand to do any rough service for his Lady.
A ruffian like this Jones will make all the capital he can out of that purse.
Kinmont Willie was a ruffian, but he had been unlawfully seized.
It will be seen that I treat of the Thief and ruffian as one.
A solitary ruffian, indeed, is moody, but a gang of ruffians are jovial.
It was a situation which might have abashed a bolder ruffian.
I remembered the way she had abandoned this very arm and hand to the white-haired ruffian.
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