bootlegger

Example Sentences

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She became a wife at 15, a mother at 16 and a grandmother in her early 30s, married to a womanizing sometime bootlegger who managed her to stardom.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

In 1934, Carl Kaelin, a failed chicken farmer and former whiskey bootlegger, scraped together $680 and, alongside his wife Margaret, opened an eponymous family restaurant.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2021

Outlaw and bootlegger Joseph Henry Loveless’ bones were found in an Idaho cave on two separate dates, in 1979 and 1991.

From Fox News • Feb. 14, 2020

A bootlegger strong-arms a jazz cornetist and his combo at a 1920s Kansas City speakeasy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2020

He trembled with the thought of the white men in the bank—the men who helped him buy and mortgage houses—discovering that this raggedy bootlegger was his sister.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison