How to Use bagman in a Sentence

bagman

noun

• The white-suited bagman, a fixture since 1993 and one of his best friends, wasn't sure.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
• And there was this friendly guy who could only be called his bagman.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• The bagman and Li’s brother-in-law pleaded guilty to drug trafficking offenses, while charges against the wife were dropped.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
• The most suspect funds were brought in by Johnny Chung, a bagman for the Asian billionaire Riady family.
  — John Fund, National Review, 16 July 2017
• The leader of the Massachusetts State Senate was put on trial for extorting money from one of the guys who’d been his bagman for over a decade.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• Whatever the answer, Zinke has become a bagman for an administration that wants to cut the program’s funding to a historic low.
  — Elliott D. Woods, Outside Online, 6 June 2018
• Chris Mack has emphatically denied any tie to Miller or Christian Dawkins, the associate-slash- bagman.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Roberts served as Ike’s financial adviser and executor, and, after Roberts helped arrange his run for President, as his bagman.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• With the Depression in full swing, former successful theater manager and independent stockbroker Eddie has been reduced to working as a bagman for a lowly Irish gangster.
  — Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024