mobster
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
In 2018, the Senate said mobster criminality and political inaction had caused an ecological disaster in the region.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
As the mobster Hyman Roth and Michael Corleone plot to take over even more of a Cuba on the verge of revolution, Roth says:
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
In “The Mask,” also released in 1994, he played mobster Dorian Tyrell, antagonist to Jim Carrey’s Stanley Ipkiss, a.k.a. the Mask.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
As one former associate tells Springs Toledo about the Boston mobster: “I can’t talk about Joe. He wouldn’t want me to.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Delia went to the door and blocked it, her feet apart and arms crossed like some kind of mobster.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Rocky Balboa is a stumblebum club fighter making $65 a fight and working on the side as collection man for small-time mobsters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But Morano, the councilman, is adamant that "this is not just a place that should be known for landfills and mobsters."
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
He drank tall glasses of orange juice in seedy dives as he infiltrated an underworld of bank-robbing clowns and bird-obsessed mobsters.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
Rittenhome never lifts a finger, but Scorsese’s coiled performance drives home the point that corporate executives can be as ruthless as mobsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Rather than deal with the mobsters directly, the agency sent what’s known in the language of spies as a cut-out.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
