How to Use mobster in a Sentence

mobster

noun
  • This is a big-time mobster gunning for the White House.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • Comey has said that Trump is not fit to hold office and has compared him to a mobster.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The story that the world thought was that he had been killed by a rival Russian mobster.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The mobsters didn’t show up and Hoffa was never seen again.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
  • The mobsters didn’t gain power overnight; in the ’90s the violence was not yet a crisis.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2018
  • The ruling even specified the distance agents had to keep from the mobster’s golf game.
    — Lee Server, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2018
  • But the movie about old mobsters is unusually somber for the genre.
    — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • To bolster their cover as mobsters, the agents offered him his pick from a cache of weapons.
    — Ted Genoways, New Republic, 15 May 2017
  • 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
  • The hero roamed an underworld where the police were as suspect as the mobsters.
    — George Wead, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Maybe Mary can shake Archie out of his mobster dealings of this season and bring back the music man!
    — refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • And Hank is a very trusting and sweet and innocent Chechen mobster for sure.
    — Carita Rizzo, SPIN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Both men start working for mobster Rudy (Michael Rispoli).
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Manfredini is out cold, and a gang of mobster types comes to take him.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • And there are also old-school mobsters, henchmen and thugs.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • According to the Post, the thief was trying to deal with the mobsters directly without the fence.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The scored photos detach from the main sheet and can be adhered to your fridge, car, or robot mobster.
    — Roberto Baldwin, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2012
  • This is pure corruption, and more proof Trump's the laziest mobster on the planet.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The mobster is subsequently killed and the boss is charged with murder.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • What is happening in Sudan is a mobster shootout, and the world is running away from it.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The first season was set in Providence, and filled with the sort of characters that would be right at home in a mobster movie.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The mobster manages to reach Bogart on the phone and threatens to kill him if the story appears.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 10 June 2020
  • A mobster lives lavishly in a Jetsons-meets-the-Flintstones house in Park Ridge.
    — Lee Bey, Chicago Reader, 22 June 2017
  • 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
  • Focused on a mobster and his vast web of family and friends, much of the film was shot in Astoria, Queens.
    — Vogue, 25 Jan. 2025
  • But mobster Reggie Fontaine (Freeman), who’s been bankrolling Max’s dubious projects, is not at all amused.
    — Joe Leydon, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025

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