henchmen
Example Sentences
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Presiding over the baddies, Jared Leto’s blue-skinned, caped, literally boneheaded man-demon Skeletor is meant to be the fiercest of antagonists, but even his own henchmen find his signature evil cackle to be a bit laughable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
And it is all being fed by sycophants and henchmen who have created a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
Gunn has sarcastically tried to make the place look cheery — Luthor’s henchmen are dressed in mismatched Hawaiian shirts — but the sequence might give you the shivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
Protesters labelled HTS's security forces as "Shabbiha", a term used to describe Assad's loyalist henchmen.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
“Let us speak openly. Why have you come here tonight, surrounded by henchmen, to request a job we both know you do not want?”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
