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Example sentences for: mafia

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

The opinion mafia holds forth on the president's predicament.
This is what the Starr-Clinton opinion mafia is up to right now.
In Donnie Brasco , Pacino has been cast as a sad little Mafia second-rater named "Lefty" Ruggiero, who boasts repeatedly of having "clipped" 26 guys, yet is always passed over for promotions within the "family."
Edgar Hoover denied the existence of the Mafia and refused to investigate it).
The settings have a density of detail that makes them feel authentic, from the Brooklyn basement dens of the Russian mafia to the kitsch palaces of Atlantic City to the blue-collar bingo halls of Binghamton, N.Y.; and the aforementioned four page glossary is a bounty for urban anthropologists.