How to Use mobster in a Sentence

mobster

noun
  • The mobster’s ominous words were captured by the FBI’s recorder.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Just 18 days later, the mobster trio came back to the home — this time running off with the artwork.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In the film, Affleck plays a low-level mobster who is in love with the mob boss' daughter, played by Miller.
    Andrea Towers, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The weapons, now with the mobster-autocrat Kim Jong-un in charge, get all the attention.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And Hank is a very trusting and sweet and innocent Chechen mobster for sure.
    Carita Rizzo, SPIN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In court, a half-dozen mobsters involved in skimming in Las Vegas were sent to prison in 1986.
    Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Focused on a mobster and his vast web of family and friends, much of the film was shot in Astoria, Queens.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That’s 101 years old and among its many, many guests have been mobster Frank Nitti and later Princess Diana.
    Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The book has a story about the sister of the biggest mobster in Amsterdam.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
  • Pacino plays a mobster, released from prison, who — say it with me — gets sucked back into a life of crime.
    Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • The criminal courts failed to find White mobsters guilty of assault, arson and murder.
    Suzette Malveaux, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • He is believed to be the last mobster who may have clues to solving the world’s richest art heist, which has captivated the art world since the early 1990s.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • How the painting ended up in the Florida home in the first place is still a mystery — but the FBI agent believes mobsters passed it on like a hot potato.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • After stealing a huge sum of money from a mob boss, a thief finds that the mobster’s pregnant wife is a stowaway in his getaway car.
    Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Azaria has fun with what appears to be an Israeli mobster who muscled and guiled his way into showbiz.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
  • Lou’s father runs the town, sort of like a low-level mobster in a mob that only employs flunkies and toadies with nothing better to do.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Bernie invites them to his beach house, ostensibly as a reward, and asks his mobster partner to kill them.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The girlfriend of a mobster meets her ex-con neighbor, basically seduces her, and draws her into a scheme to rob millions from the mob and start a new life.
    Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Costa served as the front woman in a former mobster's busted chain of Rascal Flatts restaurants.
    Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2021
  • His character was the boss of mobster Tommy Vercetti, voiced by Ray Liotta.
    Chelsea White, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Trump, who learned much of his aggressive legal playbook from the late celebrity Mob lawyer Roy Cohn, has been compared many times throughout the years to a mobster.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The rest are releasing pinball plungers, or staring into screens to battle mobsters and space aliens.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Berman, the daughter of a Las Vegas mobster and a writer, was Durst’s longtime confidante from college days.
    Brian Melley, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Pupetta caught my eye because of the audacity of her crimes — avenging the hit on her mobster husband at the age of 18 in the third trimester of pregnancy.
    Barbie Nadeau, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The plot hinges on Bob Hoskins’s mobster wanting to go legit by developing the city’s Docklands district.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • At the top end, mobsters colluded with the country’s intelligence chiefs to protect their cash flow.
    Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • And yet, his cheerful Chechen mobster in the crime-comedy series managed to survive for four seasons.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
  • This minor league team was as much a part of Rhode Island as quahogs, or Del’s Lemonade, or hoary stories of having once bumped into so-and-so the mobster at such-and-such a joint.
    New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • The series follows a former mobster, played by Sylvester Stallone, who forms a new crime empire in Oklahoma.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And there was, at one point, a nod to the film sequence featuring mobster Spats Colombo (played by Mark Lotito) hiding under a room service cart.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2023

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