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
• 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
• 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
• 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 The Batman, Farrell's Penguin isn't yet the kingpin he's destined to become.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• Byrd rose from a Park Heights stick-up boy to a drug kingpin shipping loads of marijuana across the country.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• Oh, and the deviant kingpin of them all, the murderous Aaron Hernandez.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• The entire industry depends on this, the jaws of the fifth wheel clamping properly around the kingpin.
  — Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• And at least one package has an image of late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar on it.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 21 May 2021
• Ketchup kingpin Heinz did what brands love to do and jumped at the chance to release a limited edition sauce inspired by the hubbub.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
• Other stars include Liam Hemsworth as a hunky/brainy hood and Vince Vaughan as a oddball drug kingpin.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2020

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024