How to Use the Mafia in a Sentence

the Mafia

noun
  • He was marked much more than me in that world, hanging around with the Mafia guys.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Did the Mafia want a bargaining chip to help free a member from prison?
    — Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The scene is known for the passing of power and love between the Mafia don and his son Michael.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • This is a heavy-handed use of a law originally written for the Mafia.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The aircraft was also rumored to have belonged to an Arab prince and even the Mafia.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Many of the people left in the Mafia here are aged or in prison, and the status of the local mob has been questioned.
    — Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There are occasional reminders that the Mafia lingers.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In the original novel, the Mafia puts pressure on the mayor to keep the beaches open.
    — Jim Beckerman, USA Today, 16 June 2025
  • This attitude existed before the rise of the Mafia.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May 2026
  • Ciotti realizes that the Mafia and mafiosità may be unbreakable forces in Italy.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • This World Series is rigged, probably by the Dems & the Mafia.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This World Series is rigged, probably by the Dems & the Mafia.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The connection was there between Sinatra and the Mafia and Kennedy.
    — David Marchese, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Probably Courtesy of the Mafia.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 20 Mar. 2026
  • What Rudy and Cuomo shared was the fact that they were expected to speak as Italians about the Mafia.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The brazen, high-tech scheme was backed by the Mafia and raked in millions of dollars, according to an indictment unsealed this week.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Part of what made The Sopranos resonate with its audience was this sense of the Mafia amid the mundane.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • On the other, writing about the Mafia is to write about life, family, love, betrayal and brotherhood.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The goal is for one group of players (the Mafia) to eliminate others (the Townspeople) or vice versa.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Fighting the Mafia, the local cops, the feds – everyone – Danny is out to build a dynasty or will die trying.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 12 May 2025
  • Fenoglio can practically smell the Mafia war about to explode in the seaside town of Bari, Apulia.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Mafia Others have questioned whether the Mafia may have been responsible for Kennedy's murder.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • When the Mafia snatches her anyway, his PTSD returns and launches him on a dark path to vengeance.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Violet falls for Corky, and the pair plans to run off together with a cool $2 million — money that belongs to the Mafia.
    — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The climate crisis is pouring gasoline on these blazes, but new research suggests the Mafia is exploiting them for power and profit.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
  • At the event, the couple was photographed holding hands and Burton also placed his arm behind the Mafia Mamma star's back.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 4 July 2024
  • Our president follows the business model of the Mafia underworld, which is extortion.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Into the 1980s, historians note, they were often controlled by the Mafia.
    — Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024
  • My biggest surprise was the omnipresence of the Mafia in presidential politics for much of the last century.
    — Eric Dezenhall, airmail.news, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In 1981, her attorney brother was killed by the Mafia after testifying against them.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 July 2025

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