How to Use Mafia in a Sentence

Mafia

noun

• He's an important figure in the television mafia.
• And by the way, life back in the day was part of the PayPal Mafia.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
• The patient confesses to being the head of the Irish Mafia and spills out his darkest deeds and secrets.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2024
• The Traitors is essentially the sleepover game Mafia, plus capes.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 Mar. 2024
• Speer killed Dickerson in a bid to join the Texas Mafia prison gang, prosecutors said.
  — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Posing as a Mexican Mafia member can draw a death sentence from the gang.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• This is just a man in his elements, with his Bills Mafia compadres, enjoying the dead of winter.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• The song was also supposed to feature Three 6 Mafia, but their label blocked clearances.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
• In the past year, Latin Mafia have become one of Mexico’s top acts without a record label or album.
  — Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
• None of Scorsese’s Mafia movies were as convoluted as this.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• Then, one Mafia member mentioned that Uber kept metadata on the accounts.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
• The 'ndrangheta has quietly amassed power in Italy and abroad as the Sicilian Mafia lost influence.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2023
• Gavin Schmitt spent years researching the Milwaukee Mafia.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2024
• For years before his death, historians and members of the Blues Mafia had been prodding him to release some of the material.
  — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• Advertisement Christopher, 21, was shot driving down a street claimed by the Crenshaw Mafia Gangsters.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Prominent jurists warned of the danger of Mafia involvement.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• Jason went viral several times during the game for taking off his shirt, guzzling beer, passionately cheering on his brother and jumping out of the suite to join Bills Mafia in the stands.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2024
• The agency was busily hatching plots to assassinate Castro, sometimes with Mafia help.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Gen: 'Mafia style politicians have come to power in Israel' The town has been deemed a closed military zone in the wake of the violence, specifically with the aim of keeping the sides apart and de-escalating the situation.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• Many were minors, particularly young women who did not want their families to marry them off to a Mafia associate.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• The Mexican Mafia’s 140 or so members control the landscape that serves as both an incubator for new rappers and inspiration for their music.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• An indictment announced Wednesday also alleges firearms and narcotics charges against members of the gang, which prosecutors allege is tied to the Mexican Mafia prison gang.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 26 July 2023
• Since then, the law has been used to target some of the highest-profile Mafia members, including Antonio Corallo, head of the infamous Lucchese crime family.
  — Michelle Lou, Brandon Griggs and Emily Smith, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
• This includes telemarketing scams targeting senior citizens, an arsonist setting fire to the city of Boston, the Italian Mafia’s downfall over olive oil and the escapades of a rare book thief.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2024
• The gathering went seriously awry when all of the guests — including members of the Black Mafia — got robbed and sometimes humiliated by low-level criminals.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
• Gang defectors told authorities that Huerta was inducted into the Mexican Mafia in the mid-1980s.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• The Traitors, which operates similarly to a murder mystery show and a game of Mafia, has become extremely popular, and is Peacock’s most streamed unscripted original series to date.
  — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 7 June 2024
• However, instead of gaining his freedom, Martinez is now in federal custody to face the Mexican Mafia racketeering charges.
  — Tony Saavedra, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
• Three men described by federal prosecutors as Mexican Mafia foot soldiers who allegedly took their orders from Martinez were convicted of the murder.
  — Tony Saavedra, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
• After initially suspecting Mafia involvement, investigators turned to the couple’s sons, Lyle, 21, and Erik, 18, as perpetrators of the murders.
  — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024