How to use gangster in a sentence

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• The gangster blew off the sheriff's head.From the entry blow off
• The gangsters roughed him up a little.From the entry rough up
• In the motion picture ‘The Godfather’, gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled.From the entry take care of
• It is not a headline-grabber like “hooligan”, “thug” or “teen gangster”.2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian. From the entry headline-grabber
• Not even the flyest gangsters got that much ice on hand."2019, David Gordon, chapter 11, in The Hard Stuff, New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN; republished London: Head of Zeus, 2019, →ISBN. From the entry fugazi
• He looked like a gangster, the way he dressed, conducted himself.”2013, Mark Cohen, Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman, UPNE, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry bootleggery
• He projects a slide of a young driver doing a “gangster lean,” slouched in the seat.2010, Andrew Holtz, The Real Grey's Anatomy, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry gangsta lean
• From ruthless gangsters to restless mail order kings, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the St.2004, Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen, The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television. From the entry ghostlore
• We all fear and oppose the New World Order and the gangsters who are promoting it.1993 December 7, Homer Wilson Smith, “Religion Discussions on ACT”, in alt.clearing.technology (Usenet). From the entry Skousenite
• Valentine's Day Massacre at Chicago was a red-letter day in the gangster wars."1975, John Ankenbruck, Twentieth Century History of Fort Wayne, page 286. From the entry red letter day
• The carnivora are the gangsters round here, but man is still the arch criminal—Public Enemy Number One.1957, Joy Packer, “Something to Fear”, in The Moon by Night: A Novel, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC…. From the entry carnivora
• He didnʼt look like a gangster or pimp but he carried the sleaziness of someone who did barely legal work.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 29. From the entry sleaziness
• It was rave reviewed in the Caribbean Times as 'the ruffest, tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'.2003, Ronald Carter, The Routledge Guide to Modern EnglishWriting, Routledge, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry tuff
• I'd say it's the "kwai lan" (gangster) look.1999 May 23, “The Loanshark Look”, in The New Paper, Singapore. From the entry guai lan
• There had been previous killings, but Brent was the first to be taken for a ride in true gangster style.1997, Ian Macdonald, Betty O'Keefe, The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take, page 37. From the entry take for a ride
• I saw a youth on the platform, tossing and catching a bunch of carkeys like a gangster with a silver dollar.1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus, London: Arrow Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry carkey
• Part detective story, part gangster, part urban melodrama, Film Noir was identified best by its dark and pessimistic undercurrents.1977, James Monaco, “The Shape of Film History”, in How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and…. From the entry undercurrent
• Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster—the tough guy who really is all heart.1969 January 17, "Books: His Life and Crimes" (review of The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas), Time (retrieved 2 May 2019). From the entry all heart
• Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.1959, “The European Western—By George N. Fenin and William K. Everson”, in Film Culture, number 20, page 66. From the entry dress-suited
• In another group, still allegiant to the gangsters, were men such as Shorty, Sorensen, Lars Jacobsen, and Larry.1914, Jack London, chapter L, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore. From the entry allegiant
• The developers Hongwei knew in Shenyang were all gangsters, and when they weren't making shady deals, they were spending their nights in private gambling parlors.2015, Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers, “Kidnapped”, in In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Non-fiction), Penguin…. From the entry Shenyang
• When she couldn't repay the loan, he introduced Red to hardcore gorilla tactics and gangstered her into the fast sheets and the street game.2012, James Robinson, Gospel of the Game, page 185. From the entry fast sheet
• Until the justicars got there, she was the only thing standing between the Black Sun gangsters and the relatively innocent residents of Gnawer's Roost.2011, Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance, →ISBN. From the entry justicar
• "Why remember those nasty centuries when honest folk were queered, pestered and malagroozed by clanjamfries of greedy gangsters who called themselves governments and stock exchanges?"1994, Alasdair Gray, A History Maker. From the entry malagruze
• The Penguin can also fairly be described as an HBO gangster drama whose antihero is a brutal but troubled mid-level Mafioso with limitless ambition and debilitating maternal issues.2024 September 19, Judy Berman, “HBO’s The Penguin Is a Stylish, Dumbed-Down Trump Allegory That Speaks to TV’s Decline”, in TIME…. From the entry limitless
• Even hardened gangsters teasingly addressed him as leng zai or 'pretty boy' and told him to marry their daughters so they would have grandchildren as cute as he was.2019 June 27, Ovidia Yu, The Paper Bark Tree Mystery, Constable, →ISBN. From the entry leng zai
• FOLLOWING in the footsteps of foreign missionaries, Chinese gangsters and Chiang Kai-shek, I traveled to the mountain outpost of Moganshan looking for a breather from full-throttle Shanghai.[2012 April 12, Justin Bergman, “A Lofty Retreat From Sweltering Shanghai”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Mount Mogan
• “max, you know i don't smoke.” “this is different.” “What is it?” “gage.” “eh?” “texas tea. mexican spinach. maitland madness. loco weed. indian hemp. gangster. marijuana.”2011, Peter Doyle, The Devil's Jump, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry Texas tea

Meaning of gangster

1. noun A member of a criminal or street gang.
2. noun A member of a professional criminal organization (in organized crime): a racketeer.
3. verb To act like a gangster; to commit street crime or run a racket.

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Questions about gangster in a sentence

How do you use gangster in a sentence?

Gangster is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “We put an end to our beef. We're all gangster now.”

What is a short sentence with gangster?

“Sampling is the most gangsta shit ever.”

What does gangster mean?

Gangster means a member of a criminal or street gang.