gangster

Example Sentences

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There are amusing moments in murder mysteries and gangster sagas; sometimes one needs a break.

From The Wall Street Journal

Years later, he told a grand jury: “My primary duties were to keep down these gangster killings and try to keep some of these rough guys under control.”

From Los Angeles Times

In clipped, fast-moving scenes, Mr. Sayles shifts between the boardroom and the assembly line, and radiates out to develop the roles of attendant characters, from journalists to labor activists to gangsters and rumrunners.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is the It Club, owned by a Black gangster and visited by everyone from Miles to Coltrane to Monk, who recorded an album there.

From Los Angeles Times

There may have been some male suitors but never any who were gangsters.

From Los Angeles Times