How to Use mob boss in a Sentence

mob boss

noun
  • The track appears to have Swift transform into a mob boss of the music world.
    — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Notably, the indictment portrays Thug as something of a mob boss.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • Accessorized with a dark-blue pair of structured sunglasses, Bloom's look leaned more mob boss.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • Brendan Gleeson stars as a mob boss named Silvermane.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Gleeson, whose casting had been making the rounds for weeks, is believed to be playing a New York mob boss.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The series stars Stallone as a former mob boss who builds a new crime empire in Oklahoma.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The fictional mob boss also owned a 55-foot Ocean Yacht in the show’s later seasons.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The rhetoric was often harsh — likening the president to a mob boss or calling him a sociopath — but did not espouse violence.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • Redford snagged an Oscar nomination for the tale of two grifters trying to pull off an intricate scheme to stick it to a mob boss.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the play, a Bronx kid named Calogero witnesses a murder happen and is looked after by a mob boss in the aftermath.
    — Abigail Lee, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Burton has played mob boss Jason Morgan on the award-winning soap opera on and off since 1991.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The series stars Sylvester Stallone as a former mob boss who builds a new crime empire in Oklahoma.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • Sonny was this father figure that Dex always wanted, but in a really toxic, unhealthy way that a mob boss would be.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Image Landi hit back in a manner more befitting a mob boss than a telecom executive.
    — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Ruffalo will voice Nero, a scrappy black cat, and Fishburne will play Rocco, a ruthless cat mob boss.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • Thresher’s call to Kansas City mob boss Bill Bevilaqua is paying dividends too.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2024
  • As Season 2 starts, Charlie’s traded one vengeful mob boss for another.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 May 2025
  • Takashi Kubo got a great shot of a flying squirrel in Hokkaido, Japan, who looks every bit like a mob boss sucking down a cigar.
    — New Atlas, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Brosnan plays Charlie Swift, a hitman who has been working for his aging mob boss, Stan (Caan), for two decades.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Gotti is the grandson of infamous former New York mob boss John Gotti.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 12 June 2023
  • In the grips of her ghost, the young woman starts howling accusations aimed at a local mob boss (Zlatko Burić) who happens to be sitting at the bar.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Pacino plays a powerful mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s crusade.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Pacino plays a powerful mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s crusade.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Tony also helps organize a successful hit during the episode that is carried out on his rival mob boss Phil Leotardo.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Tony also helps organize a successful hit during the episode that is carried out on his rival mob boss Phil Leotardo.
    — Skyler Trepel, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Later, he was joined on the show by Robert De Niro, who played the chairman of the FCC and behaved like a mob boss.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In the sequence, Wiles watches as a group of women place a tattoo on mob boss Lupino’s face that mirrors the facial marking seen on The Bride.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Her accent alternates mid-sentence from city gal to snidely British, Ida loudly accusing a mob boss of murdering women.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The film reunited Newman and Redford as two professional grifters trying to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Troy Kotsur is an unexpected delight as Mancuso, a mob boss who goes after the Friedkins for an unpaid loan.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025

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