How to Use hooliganism in a Sentence

hooliganism

noun
  • Defuse hooliganism with grace, song, and love.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In normal times, there are a good deal of hate crimes which take place, and which are akin to hooliganism.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • That includes 10 cases of theft, three of hooliganism and two of fraud.
    — Fox News, 26 May 2018
  • She has since been rearrested twice on the same charges, as well as for petty hooliganism, and put back in prison.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The September episode that led to the hooliganism charges centered on a suspicious bag at a bus stop.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Some video game communities, in other words, have give risen to a new brand of digital hooliganism.
    — Simon Parkin, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The official charge was hooliganism, according to court records.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • So has hooliganism and violence, which is so common that some groups of fans travel to games in armored vehicles.
    — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
  • He was saved from a descent into hooliganism by swimming, a sport for which the Henriques family is well known.
    — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • More than 50 countries on six continents have seen some level of soccer hooliganism.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The activists were charged with piracy (later lessened to hooliganism) and threatened with 15 years in prison.
    — Abe Streep, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2015
  • Fans are strongly attached to their clubs, and such fanaticism often ends in violence and hooliganism.
    — Edna Tarigan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • But conditioned by hooliganism to look out for threats to public order and not to public safety, police were slow to respond.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 28 June 2017
  • The establishment’s owner called the police, who charged the husband and wife with petty hooliganism.
    — Valerie Hopkins Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The film focused on an American who got involved in the brutal world of British football hooliganism.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
  • During the height of hooliganism in the ’70s and ’80s, fighting sometimes broke out between rival sets of fans.
    — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • They were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
  • In many other countries, including our opponent last night, the state has taken serious measures to get rid of hooliganism.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2019
  • But officials are taking a hard line, warning that anyone displaying hooliganism could face a lifetime ban at stadiums.
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • Off the pitch Away from the stadiums, soccer officials are hoping the host nation can avoid a resurgence of soccer hooliganism.
    — Siobhan Morrin, Time, 13 June 2018
  • After the April camp invasion, C14's Mazur was charged with hooliganism.
    — Yuras Karmanau and Evgeny Maloletka, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018
  • There have certainly been acts of cultural hooliganism in areas occupied by the Russians.
    — CNN, 9 May 2022
  • Evidently, the presence of the encased meats was provoking hooliganism.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Sure, the conditions were chilly and wet, but the amount of hooliganism at the ready, even when using well shy of this car's full 668 horsepower, can almost seem reckless.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In fans, the hooliganism that undermines goodwill is revealed in the incredible lack of Temperance.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • This new-blood Auburn basketball, with a fanbase that feels like soccer hooliganism dipped in a deep fryer, is something blue-blood college basketball isn’t quite sure what to do with.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The remaining third presumably were off doing football hooliganism or pretending that Oasis isn’t total shite.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026
  • In contrast, the English National Team was still tinged by a legacy of xenophobic hooliganism in its fan base and the brazen consumption of its stars.
    — Roger Bennett, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
  • An officer with the UK’s Metropolitan police force has been sacked for football hooliganism and given a three-year ban from matches.
    — Phil Hay, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The checkered reputation of fan behavior dates to the days of England’s worst episodes of hooliganism in the 1970s and 80s.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026

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