Example sentences for: bugsy

How can you use “bugsy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The subject of Jewish gangsterism has been well mined in recent years by both historians and Hollywood: Albert Fried's The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America and Jenna Weissman Joselit's Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community--1900-1940 are two recent additions to the nonfiction literature, and films such as Once Upon a Time in America and Bugsy feature Jewish criminality.

  • During this period, East Coast Syndicate member Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel earned a foothold as a local casino operator.

  • This reaction is easy to understand: I was, at the time, facing the oppression of anti-Semitic schoolyard thugs, and in my revenge-fantasies, Bugsy Siegel and Gurrah Shapiro were lining up on my side, blackjacks in hand.

  • Didn't we see her naked in either Bugsy or The Grifters ? That would be a decided first for a first lady.

  • The presence of Bugsy Siegel and Kid Twist in our recent history does not mean we are a tough people.


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