How to Use kingpin in a Sentence

kingpin

noun

• Usual kingpin Duke missed the field for the first time sine 1995.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
• Now the cartel kingpin’s lawyer wants to be a ranchera star.
  — Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• The award is named for the legendary KSFO morning kingpin of the ’60s and ’70s.
  — Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• But this might be the only one that was kept up to the kingpin's standards.
  — Jenna Milliner-Waddell, ELLE Decor, 25 July 2017
• Graver wants to abduct the kingpin’s daughter to trigger a gang war.
  — Fortune, 1 July 2018
• The drug kingpin was sentenced to life in prison in the United States in July.
  — Fox News, 18 Oct. 2019
• Flores’ lawyer argued that Flores was not the kingpin of the ring.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
• In all, the district kingpins banged out 12 hits in the four-inning contest.
  — Rick Menning, sun-sentinel.com, 3 July 2019
• An image of the event showed the kingpin posing in front of what appears to be a birthday cake.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• The scene ends with a bloody mess, as Jules rebukes Brett for his attempts to double-cross the kingpin.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
• And the Chicago cop doubling as a kingpin for a drug-dealing street gang.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• At the same time, Reis was also leading rave-up kingpins Rocket from the Crypt.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• After all, what fun would Breaking Bad have been if Walt knew how to be a meth kingpin from the very first episode?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
• The story goes that when the kingpins were captured, there was a battle for turf and supply routes.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
• With her cover blown, the boxer grows more resolute in her search and tries to find the kingpin.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
• The coffee kingpin has $3.2 billion to fund a possible run for the White House.
  — David Rovella, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2018
• At that point, the young Tariq didn’t even know his father was himself a kingpin known on the streets as Ghost (Hardwick).
  — Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
• Schwartzman seems to be having fun with his would-be mob kingpin role.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2020
• The film follows the true-life story of Tex Gill, a transgender man who became a crime kingpin in the 1970s.
  — Tara Edwards, refinery29.com, 14 July 2019
• One of the big stories in this book is the hunt for and the takedown of the kingpin of AlphaBay, which was this dark web market that became 10 times the size of the Silk Road.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
• That was a favor to Kyle, whom Nayeri painted as a pot kingpin.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• As Mark Walter, Dodgers owner and hedge-fund kingpin with a net worth of $3.3 billion?
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 June 2020
• Fez, Rue and Ash end up at the house of an unlikely kingpin — a schoolteacher turned drug dealer.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2022
• No one fits that description better than Wilson Young, who has been the kingpin of many of the best British shoots for more than 40 years.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• As the years have passed since the drug kingpin was taken out, most of those critters ended up in zoos, save for four wild hippos.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
• The book is set in a New York housing project during the 1960s, where an elderly man jump-starts the plot by shooting a drug kingpin.
  — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2021
• Rodriguez, a drug kingpin who zipped around town in a white Jaguar, was anxious to be respected as a tough guy.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2023
• Though Idris is best known for his breakout role in Snowfall as drug kingpin Franklin Saint, he's been acting for over a decade.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
• In and of itself, that should outrage the conscience: As Scheller points out, this operation wasn’t masterminded by drug kingpins at all.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
• By killing Victor, Oz rids himself of all meaningful connections to his past, fortifying his ascension to Gotham kingpin in solitude.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025