Example sentences for: gravano

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

  • Sammy (the Bull) Gravano argues that Mario Puzo made Mafia life honorable with The Godfather . Gravano says that he himself borrowed Puzo's lines for his own mob work.

  • Book -- Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia , by Peter Maas;

  • Critical and commercial success for the biography of Gravano, "the most famous snitch in Mob history," who brought down John "the Teflon Don" Gotti, offed 18 people, and ordered his own brother-in-law's execution.

  • I think you've got one thing exactly right: The Sopranos works so well precisely because it is understated, because it is the opposite of the operatic Godfather . Together, The Godfather and The Sopranos make up some kind of whole, but here's the fundamental difference between them: Every mobster I've ever met imagines himself a player in The Godfather . I interviewed Sammy Gravano a few weeks ago and he said as much; The Godfather invested the lives of mobsters, who are in fact seedy and boring characters, with honor and drama.

  • Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia


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