minions

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, rebuilding the agency will not be nearly as easy as it was for Musk and his minions to tear it down.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026

Over on one court, a team of minions – complete with yellow-painted faces, oversized googles and beach-styled overalls – are jumping excitedly much like their animated namesake.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

These days, these coaches are no longer Saban’s minions or his rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

That fiction provided the pretext for DOGE’s demands that agency after agency grant its minions free access to the most private data they had on citizens and non-citizens alike.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2025

I have always known it possible that he could have many minions and pawns surrounding a case, a swarm invisible even to the spy.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee