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Example sentences for: kingpin
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The Nobel Prize-winning novelist's foray into journalism--an account of his fellow Colombian, the late coke kingpin Pablo Escobar--puzzles critics.
It boasts, essentially, a single joke, the one about the Mafia kingpin (Robert De Niro) who goes to a Freudian psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) to cure his panic attacks.
The plot--which turns on the arrest of a mobster kingpin (Paul Guilfoyle), a massacre at a diner, and a group of call girls surgically altered to resemble movie stars--is almost too diffuse to synopsize.
As a source of shipbuilding timber in a key location, the island was a kingpin in the far flung commercial empire, and became the Republic’s first formally constituted overseas colony.
The saintly assassin draws the line at shooting a little boy, however, so the kingpin, along with Jürgen Prochnow and other killers with scarred-in-hell faces, comes after him with Uzis, rocket-launchers, and so on.