mobster

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 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

“Lilyhammer,” another favorite and the first “exclusive” Netflix series, found Steven Van Zandt as an American mobster in witness protection in a Norwegian small town; there was a ton of snow in that show.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 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