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Example sentences for "gangster"

Lexicographically close words:
gangrel; gangrene; gangrened; gangrenous; gangs; gangsters; gangue; gangway; gangways; gani
  1. Judy stared at him, recognizing him as Falco, the gangster who had warned her to keep away from the estate he and his thieving friends seemed to have taken over.

  2. Neither of them will do much talking,’ I told that gangster and the woman who was with him.

  3. All lights went out for Diego, gangster and gunman, right there.

  4. And," he added, "I think we'd better look over this gangster outfit.

  5. It is cheaper for that gangster Martinengo and his brothers to kidnap negroes, Indians and poor whites than to hire miners.

  6. The gangster ship was destroyed beyond all tracing, disintegrated.

  7. The gangster backed away, eyes glued to the spot where the chair had vanished.

  8. The gangster chief came half-way out of his chair, and as he did so, Russ reached out a single finger and tapped a key.

  9. Then what in hell," the gangster asked shakily, "are you going to do with us?

  10. The gangster laid the gun on the table, stepped closer, warily.

  11. The generators were charging the atoms of the ship's beryl-steel hide with the same hazy force that had trapped and held the gangster ship in a mighty vise.

  12. I thought so," he said, choosing to ignore the gangster and addressing Casane.

  13. The gangster put his open hands against the edge of the table as though for a rearward spring.

  14. It was dramatic, the off-hand way in which the gangster told of this mystery that had perplexed us.

  15. He said it in a tone that Dopey Jack could understand and the gangster protested.

  16. The gangster hesitated, then reassured by Langhorne, said: "He's ordered a taxicab.

  17. It kicked and pawed the helpless gangster until there was nothing left but a battered and bloody mass.

  18. Wind whooshing out, the gangster doubled up in pain.

  19. And after the gangster had left the house with his burden, Yandor resumed his seat and motioned Hanlon to take the one he had formerly occupied.

  20. When he saw the gangster returning, Hanlon quickly hid behind a great flowertree.

  21. He then forced the half-groggy gangster out of the room and loosed him in the hallway, then shut and locked his door.

  22. The gangster shivered and moistened his lips.

  23. I don't know whether the wind could have lifted the Ladybug--or whether that gangster came back for it.

  24. You see they may be hiding--for fear it's that gangster returning.

  25. There was that broken down motor-boat, that the girl and the gangster used to get to the island!

  26. Chancing to glance down at the table, the younger gangster uttered a low exclamation, then put out a hand to grasp a note that had appeared from nowhere.

  27. As the gangster came to a halt, a weird red light, from no one will ever know where, fell upon Johnny and his bow.

  28. He could not say who that one passenger might be; but he could guess; and guessing, knew the automatic in his grasp to be useless; he dared not fire at the gangster for fear of loosing a wild bullet into the body of the car.

  29. The gangster turned sharply, a frown replacing the smile which had illuminated his attempts to overcome the boy's recently developed aversion to drink.

  30. Sybarite dexterously tipped up his side of the table and, overturning it, caught the gangster unprepared for any such manoeuvre and pinned him squirming in the angle of wall and floor.

  31. Compared with the herd about him, in what stark elements made the gangster important in his world, he shone out upon the eyes of folk like stars of a clear cold night.

  32. Nothing so exalts the gangster like blood in anticipation; nothing so pleases him as to shoot from behind.

  33. As a gangster he soon distinguished himself.

  34. With rapid fingers he manipulated the controls until the screaming gangster was raised high in the air by the unseen arms of the robot.

  35. Sidenote: One after another the invisible robots escape Shelton's control--and their trail leads straight to the gangster chief Cadorna.

  36. It must have been potent and terrifying, the way that gangster wet his lips and swollered.

  37. This gangster is a killer all right and drink and dope may have overcome the usual cautions of the breed.

  38. You see, I was over to Northgate Saturday on the matter of trading some bucks with Andy Pelser and encountered the astonishing news that the whole gangster mob, those that stole Maddy's dust, were in jail.

  39. Him, a big, strong man that had made a gangster eat his gun and ordered the judge and sheriff what to do!

  40. The young visitor readily concurred in the plan, he wanted to see the house that the gangster had built anyhow.

  41. The city street is a recruiting ground for the gangster because it is full of defective children, mental and moral, who are potential criminals.

  42. The street type that makes a gangster is practically the same if cruder in development.

  43. Yessum," assented that murderous gangster like an abashed schoolboy.

  44. Whatever surmise our young gangster may have entertained he kept to himself.

  45. But the gangster was an undisciplined soul and a direct.

  46. Day after day he would come and sit, talking or reading, while the gangster lay silent, maturing murder in his soul.

  47. Though it had the sound of an oath, it was perhaps as near a prayer as the gangster had ever uttered.

  48. Patrolman White was tugging at the gangster who had been knocked unconscious by Burke's club.

  49. He sprang upward, partially numbed from the blow, but summoning all his strength he caught the gangster by the arm and shoulder and flung him bodily through the glass door which smashed with a clatter.

  50. The politician protects the gangster; the gangster protects the procurer, and both of them vote early and often for the politician.

  51. The woman, Dutch Annie, sniveling and sobbing, was lodged in a cell near the gangster before being brought before the rail to face the magistrate.

  52. The prisoners were soon arraigned, Shultberger, Jimmie the Monk and the first gangster were sent to the hospital shortly after under guard.

  53. It's worth fighting every gangster in New York for a girl like her!

  54. The gangster covered the retreat of the woman by grappling the policeman with arms and legs.

  55. The District Attorney has sent up gangster after gangster; but it's like a quicksand, Burke--new rascals seem to slide in as fast as you shovel out the old ones.

  56. His physical faculties strained and alert, subconsciously Billy Kane's mind was milling over that conversation with the gangster of an hour ago, and upon him, in spite of his own present peril, there came a cold and merciless fury.

  57. Karlin was immaculately dressed--in sharp contrast to the untidy and careless attire of the stocky, brutal-faced gangster who followed close at his heels.

  58. Red Vallon was the biggest gangster in New York.

  59. A door of one of the lower apartments opened cautiously, but closed instantly again, as Billy Kane, with the gangster beside him, went down the stairs.

  60. The gangster had come here to the den that noon.

  61. The gangster was muttering to himself: "There's Birdie and me.

  62. After that, deft questioning had elicited from the gangster the secret of this entrance to Wong Yen's, and then luck, and then the guard taken unawares.

  63. See what I got from a gangster before I landed here.

  64. It's a shame that all this sport is private stock, and can't be bottled up and peddled to the public, for they're just crazy about gangster melodrama.

  65. Blake quickly turned and saw that the gangster had remained with them in that eery flight in the green net.

  66. Both the gangster and the girl were in the grip of the same strange paralysis.

  67. It was too late for Blake to head the gangster off.

  68. The gangster was badly battered, but he seemed to have no serious injuries.

  69. Mapes' pistol was leveled pointblank at the nearest of the creatures, but their overwhelming numbers made the gangster hold his fire.

  70. We'll furl, an' let you heave to," the gangster proposed.

  71. The three had proved handy with their fists, and clannish; they had fought pitched forecastle battles with the gangster clique and won a sort of neutrality of independence for themselves.

  72. This was the big, lowest spar on the mizzen, and as the huge thing of steel swung wildly back and forth the gangster and his followers turned and crouched as they looked up to see.

  73. We'll talk it over first," the gangster announced.

  74. Mr. Mellaire, I notice on occasion, remains unduly intimate with the gangster clique.

  75. The gangster clique has established its privilege of taking first cut of the salt-beef in the meat-kids.

  76. And weaklings like Sorensen, and Jacobsen, and Bob, cannot be anything else than slaves to the men who compose the gangster clique.

  77. Nosey Murphy and Kid Twist stood shoulder to shoulder with their stricken gangster leader.

  78. It could no longer be hidden save by lying; and so I told her the truth, told her how and why the gangster had had his face dashed with sulphuric acid by the old steward who knew white men and their ways.

  79. Charles Davis was prominently in the gangster group.

  80. The gangster must have received the liquid fire in the face and eyes.


  81. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gangster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bandit; betrayer; convict; criminal; crook; deceiver; delinquent; desperado; felon; fugitive; gangster; henchman; hoodlum; jailbird; lawbreaker; malefactor; outlaw; sinner; swindler; thief; thug; traitor; transgressor; villain; wrongdoer