Example sentences for: mafia

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

  • "I once heard a comedian refer jokingly to the Jewish Mafia," he writes.

  • John McLaughlin ( The McLaughlin Group ) complains that Clinton gets to take a vacation in August while the opinion mafia must hang around swampy Washington just because a new wrinkle might break.

  • 3) The rise of black urban politics destroyed the big city machines the Mafia once depended upon to carry out its rackets.

  • 1) Increased federal enforcement . Before Hoover's death, the FBI did not aggressively investigate the Mafia.

  • A book by former Penthouse Forum editor John Heidenry, titled What Wild Ecstasy--The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution (to be published in April by Simon & Schuster), claims that Flynt's move angered the Mafia, which controlled the distribution of many men's magazines.


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