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
This novel centers on Pothivelu Pandaram, a hustling businessman in southern India whose trade consists of managing men and women with physical deformities who beg outside temples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
He remembered the night before they left Earth, the hustling and hurrying, the rocket that Dad had found somewhere, somehow, and the talk of a vacation on Mars.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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