ruffian sentence examples

• After the murder the captain let the two ruffians go ashore and locked himself in his cabin.
• Yond old ruffian is not for the priest: i do not like a new clerk should come in the old belfry.
• From his eye, he saw a third ruffian hurtle backward into the bushes.
• Ten cowardly ruffians i saw upon one unarmed man, beating him with their clubs, till they felled him to the ground.
• They were subduing, for want of a better word, some dangerous ruffian.
• The landlady tells deborah off for sitting " on the garden " while ignoring the local ruffian rolling a joint by the front door.

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