mobster

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 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

He sits in a cell at a Brooklyn jail where many a mobster knows well.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

He wore a massive velour tracksuit with gold chains around his neck and greased-back hair, so he looked like a thirty-foot-tall mobster - if mobsters had dragon feet and burnt-orange skin.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan