mobster

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Sylvester Stallone as an “over-the-hill goombah” who brings East Coast mobster methods to a heartland city?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 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