mobster

Example Sentences

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The Russian mobster decides that the brother-sister act—she pugnacious, he perpetually panic-stricken—can be useful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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

"It feels really nice, and life goes on," the ageing mobster told local media outside a Melbourne courthouse.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

In Get Shorty, Hackman starred alongside Travolta, who plays a Miami mobster sent to collect a debt.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey