How to Use gangland in a Sentence

gangland

noun
  • There had been a gangland-style shooting at the Horn Palace Inn in April of that year.
    — Michael Corcoran, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Bodies were dumped together suggesting a gangland-style killing.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Scorsese’s bouts with serious asthma are well-known, along with his front-row seat to gangland violence in his neighborhood.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That's the sort of movie magic Quentin Tarantino conjured in this LA gangland game-changer.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Some speculated that his disappearance might be related to a prison killing of a gangland leader under his watch.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • But he was perhaps best known to the public because of the gangland killing of his younger brother, Edward, in 1988.
    — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Described by Teixeira as a transvestite world gangland tale in the vein of Goodfellas, the film will shoot towards the end of the year.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Geas, 54, is serving a life sentence for his role in several violent crimes, including two gangland murders.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The twins, returning home after enriching themselves in gangland Chicago, open a juke joint and hire a young prodigy and an esteemed elder to perform there.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The gangland history is fascinating and seems to be based loosely on the rise and fall of the real-life Patriarca family.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The gangland connections and potential antagonists of the Levy brothers were simply too numerous to pin down to a single cause, or knife.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The prosecutor painted her as unwitting accomplice who has cooperated with police in spite of gangland threats to her safety.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
  • The gangland drama is deeper and darker than the domestic one, strengthened by the unexpected portrayal of the Russian toughs as bumbling in their own way.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Fargo’s gangland warfare has, to date, escalated at a surprisingly unhurried pace.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • When Akasha’s father was murdered in a gangland hit in Amsterdam in 2000, the business passed to the son’s control.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Kyle, 24, isn't an outraged surveyor of inner-city hardship (like Ice Cube) nor a stylish gangland raconteur (like Snoop Dogg).
    — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • The cast rattles off the snappy dialogue, jagged with tension and menace, in performances that wink just slyly enough at the wry, knowing way that the characters deploy—and embody—gangland stereotypes.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Gun violence on metro Detroit freeways finally appears to be subsiding after two violent years that saw a slew of shootings over everything from bad driving to gangland feuds.
    — Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
  • In gangland circles, women are casually murdered and mutilated, their killers operating with utter impunity.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Coppola insisted on verisimilitude, even overseeing the color, quality and trajectory of the blood in the gory, unsettling scenes of gangland executions.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The Los Angeles Times reported that in 1974, there were more gangland-style killings in Vegas than there had been in all the prior 25 years combined.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • More than a dozen gunmen opened fire in two bars in the central Mexican city of Celaya late on Monday, killing at least 11 people in an apparent gangland shooting, local officials and media said.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 May 2022
  • Riprore, which focuses on the heart of gangland Los Angeles, where a gruesome discovery sparks a frenetic homicide investigation, but underneath the surface lurks a darkness that leads to the end of days.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • Police described the Oakland shooting as a gangland assassination, where three cars pulled up with four gunmen inside, who opened fire and killed 24-year-old Bert Brigham III.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Framing wise guys on murder charges for Whitey Bulger, looking the other way on a gangland hit by a BPD detective in Canton in 1976, the list of scandals is too great to even list them all.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Chime, his 2024 horror short, and Serpent’s Path (1998), the dark gangland thriller, are currently screening in arthouse cinemas in major cities across the country courtesy of Janus.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
  • While some of the attacks have been attributed to criminal rivalries and gangland violence, many of them, according to Ukrainian law enforcement officials, are the work of assassins associated with Russia’s intelligence services.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • While the motive for de Vries' shooting remains unknown, the July 6 attack on an Amsterdam street had the hallmarks of the gangland hits taking place with increasing regularity in the Dutch underworld the journalist covered.
    — Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021

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