gangster

Example Sentences

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"Never in your life label me a thug again. Never label me a wannabe gangster," he said.

From BBC

“That took me into this world of Hollywood, Vegas, gangsters, sex and murder.”

From New York Times

The practice can be perilous: Block said he stopped shorting Chinese companies for a time because “tattooed gangsters” came looking for him.

From Seattle Times

The quintet of unlikely allies devises a harebrained scheme to steal back the tickets by infiltrating the gangster’s underground fight ring.

From New York Times

“We received specific orders that we in the streets had to arrest a certain number of people, whether they were gangsters or not,” the officer said.

From Seattle Times