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

Two of his most heralded prosecutions involved New York mobster John Gotti and General Manuel Noriega of Panama.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

He frequently apologized for random artifacts strewn around — plaques, movie posters, a biography of mobster Mickey Cohen — or displays not lit to his liking.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

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