hustling

Example Sentences

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Allison Ellsworth spent a decade hustling to build soda company Poppi.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

And that’s without injured stars Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, who are hustling back as fast as their bodies will let them from hamstring and oblique injuries, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

"They have made her look like she is a desperate young girl hustling for people's money," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

“You should have seen me, I was hustling and hustling for them,” she recounts about finding her famous client a home to purchase.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

It’s such a strange thing, but in two years of hustling I never once thought of it as a crime.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah