rabble

Example Sentences

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With “one black, one white, one blonde,” as the show’s tagline, “the rabble on the wrong side of the law was now the law,” said television critic Lorraine Ali in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

Pakistan became a rabble, beset by misfields and overthrows, while six home bowlers conceded more than 100 runs.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024

Loud mouths and rabble rousers where always the most respected and received the most attention from the whole community.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2023

In a Catch-22 practice, such people were rarely nominated, because the clubs’ reputations discouraged members from suggesting candidates who would surely be rejected, and members didn’t want to come across as rabble rousers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023

‘It needs more to make a king than a piece of elvish glass, or a rabble such as this. Why, any brigand of the hills can show as good a following!’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien