Example sentences for: mafia

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

  • The newspaper was bankrolled by Mafia loans in the '50s, and gangsters leaned on newsstand dealers who refused to sell it.

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

  • The opinion mafia holds forth on the president's predicament.

  • On the evidence of his book, Pistone was truly torn up about having abandoned his family for the years it took him to infiltrate the mob, but he didn't lose as much sleep over what he was doing to his Mafia family.

  • The 30 th anniversary of the coup in Tripoli, Libya, that brought Muammar Qaddafi to power was marked in La Repubblica of Rome Wednesday by an interview with seven-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti (now on trial in Italy for alleged connections with a Mafia murder), who said that while in office he was given false information about Libya by the U.S. intelligence services.


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