How to Use gangster in a Sentence

gangster

noun
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  • Al Capone remains one of the most notorious gangsters in American history.
  • Robert de Niro, no stranger to the gangster epic, takes the lead.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
  • For the consumers of the pulp fiction and gangster movies of the time, none of this was news.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The epic gangster film would not be the same if it were shot anywhere else.
    — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The name comes from a young gangster named O.D. Perry who was shot and killed on the block.
    — Fox News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • One of those clichés, like a gangster movie from the ‘40s or something.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2021
  • There’s a gangster named Saint Joe (played by the wily Daniel Wu, who the movie could have used more of).
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The western tends to be macho fare, akin to the gangster movie in the genre universe.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
  • At that time, in 1990, Hong Kong gangsters were out of control.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
  • The Irish gangster seems to be an invention of the writers.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 11 June 2022
  • The next day, Joan is awakened in the middle of the night by gangsters looking for her boyfriend, Gary.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Michael Jai White plays a gangster just long enough for Joker to kill Spawn.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Murda is the ticket out for his boys, the gangster with a future.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Jagger was playing a rock star, James Fox was playing the gangster on the lam.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Her book reveals that the gangster died in a shootout in Barrington.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The plot moves with the velocity of a gangster movie with a sneaky sense of humor.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • That’s more than the gangsters of Winter Hill ever did.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • When one of the players complained that Jan Deok-su and his gang took their food, the gangster beat him to death.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The use of guns in Hollywood films has a long tradition going back to the gangster movies of the 1930s.
    — Dan Romer, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Astrid Holleeder is the sister of a Dutch gangster, risking her life to bring him down.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
  • Malik Sharif let out a big false laugh, like a gangster in the Bollywood movies.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The last man standing — the last OG (original gangster) rock 'n' roller.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Her gangster pals filled the morgues; her girls were commodities.
    — CBS News, 7 Nov. 2021
  • By the end of that first hour, Mitch had been gunned down by a gangster who lacked the proper respect for the man’s position.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 2 June 2024
  • Harold Shand, the Cockney gangster brought to snarling life by Bob Hoskins, is a man who knows how to coin a memorable phrase.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • After several years as a gangster, the law caught up with Wong.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Hoskins again, this time as an ex-con who’s hired by a gangster (Michael Caine) to be the driver and bodyguard of a high-class call girl (Cathy Tyson).
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In his palace, the gangster proudly displays the one-time smuggler frozen in carbonite.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022
  • There was -- was that list of 60 people in his book, government gangsters.
    — ABC News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The gangster rap which surrounded me was problematic in a number of ways.
    — Jon Hochschartner, Hartford Courant, 18 Dec. 2024

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