How to Use hustler in a Sentence

hustler

noun
  • Was this song for Rauw, for us ear-hustlers, or for God?
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For side hustlers, this is one of the fastest paths to consistent cash flow.
    — Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But like most hustlers, Melvin also had a ride-or-die chick on the side.
    — Aliya S. King, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Frank, a hustler who happens to be straight, wants help with a play and needs a place to spend the night.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Bunny is a hustler out on a job when things go sideways – and deadly.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025
  • But now many of those hustlers, feeling betrayed, are taking to the streets.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • The survey shows that this is why 71% of side hustlers surveyed kept their day jobs.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • She has been besieged by hustlers claiming to know her daughter or even to be her daughter.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • But no expansion teams are coming to take their place, no matter what the hustlers tell you.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
  • She has been besieged by hustlers claiming to know her daughter – or even to be her daughter.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • His subjects included hustlers, cross-dressers and drag queens.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Dreyer, a smart hustler, often surfaces in the right place in key moments.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And there’s a black Porsche in that book as well, from which Julian, a hustler with a drug debt, emerges.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Many side hustlers can open a bank account for their business in a matter of minutes online.
    — Rosalie Murphy Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • His claim is that Xu is a hustler and that kind of hunger is not in your DNA.
    — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Harry is different; harry is a hustler and is smart enough to work through a charted course.
    — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • As street life turned treacherous, the specter of the hustler, and whether to become one, cast a growing shadow.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Side hustlers don’t have the same budgets as major e-commerce retailers.
    — Rytis Lauris, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The supporting cast was a pleasant surprise, but it was filled mostly with low-usage hustlers.
    — Jay King, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • Well, funnily enough, my mom has always been like a modern-day hustler in wanting to find new ways to grow her money.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Our survey shows one-third (32%) of side hustlers use email marketing while one-quarter use paid ads.
    — Rytis Lauris, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The victim managed to flee with a stab wound to the shoulder, and later saw the man again at the park eyeing other male hustlers.
    — Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The outlier is a cue ball signed by pool hustler Minnesota Fats.
    — John Sandman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Try averting your eyes from this… note the touch and spin — enough to shame a pool hustler — that Lamine Yamal puts on the ball.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • His father, Bill, was a hustler out in Oakland before Devin was born.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Chess, church and barbecue Oden had a reputation as a chess hustler.
    — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • Power-hungry hustlers kiss up to the nation’s leader, in the hopes of gaining favor and status.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Claude Helton, one of the first to see Melvin’s dead body, was also one of the first hustlers to befriend Melvin.
    — Aliya S. King, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Neither would have agreed to portray a skinny ping pong hustler with a surly disposition and bad complexion.
    — Peter Bart, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026

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