How to Use mobster in a Sentence

mobster

noun
  • Again and again the mobster’s own words were turned against them.
    — George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The police chief is in bed with mobsters.
    — Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Jurors got to hear mobsters in their own words discussing the mob war.
    — George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Manfredini is out cold, and a gang of mobster types comes to take him.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2024
  • But the movie about old mobsters is unusually somber for the genre.
    — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • And even at Savin bar, there are plenty of fans of the mobster photos.
    — Tovia Smith, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • To bolster their cover as mobsters, the agents offered him his pick from a cache of weapons.
    — Ted Genoways, New Republic, 15 May 2017
  • Comey has said that Trump is not fit to hold office and has compared him to a mobster.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, the two mobster characters were of no relation at all in the film.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • He is told to wear a suit for a meeting with a high-ranking Russian mobster.
    — Mike Ryan, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The hero roamed an underworld where the police were as suspect as the mobsters.
    — George Wead, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Inside you there are two mobsters, and Robert De Niro plays both.
    — Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The story that the world thought was that he had been killed by a rival Russian mobster.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The ruling even specified the distance agents had to keep from the mobster’s golf game.
    — Lee Server, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The mobster is subsequently killed and the boss is charged with murder.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • In this scene, Gaga is stripped of her cloak in front of a group of mobsters waiting to place auction bids on her.
    — Kinsey Jasnoch, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The teaser trailer shows a gang of cats hanging out on a rooftop, with one flicking its claws like a mobster would a knife.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • And Hank is a very trusting and sweet and innocent Chechen mobster for sure.
    — Carita Rizzo, SPIN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • But when a second version of the mobster from six months in the future travels back in time to blow the whole deal, things get wacky.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The mobsters are seconds away from killing Stephanie when Emily arrives and knocks them out.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 May 2025
  • Maybe Mary can shake Archie out of his mobster dealings of this season and bring back the music man!
    — refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The mobster’s ominous words were captured by the FBI’s recorder.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • That’s when the son of a local mobster comes in to collect money on a debt Devora owes his father.
    — Jada Yuan, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The mobster manages to reach Bogart on the phone and threatens to kill him if the story appears.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 10 June 2020
  • 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
  • According to the Post, the thief was trying to deal with the mobsters directly without the fence.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018

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