How to Use gangland in a Sentence

gangland

noun

• There had been a gangland-style shooting at the Horn Palace Inn in April of that year.
  — Michael Corcoran, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Sep. 2021
• But he was perhaps best known to the public because of the gangland killing of his younger brother, Edward, in 1988.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• When Akasha’s father was murdered in a gangland hit in Amsterdam in 2000, the business passed to the son’s control.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2019
• Kyle, 24, isn't an outraged surveyor of inner-city hardship (like Ice Cube) nor a stylish gangland raconteur (like Snoop Dogg).
  — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
• A journalist (Annabelle Stephenson) raised in the state’s Central Valley goes home and learns that the lack of precipitation has turned the farms into a violent gangland.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• The gangland history is fascinating and seems to be based loosely on the rise and fall of the real-life Patriarca family.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
• The gangland connections and potential antagonists of the Levy brothers were simply too numerous to pin down to a single cause, or knife.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021
• Some speculated that his disappearance might be related to a prison killing of a gangland leader under his watch.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Bodies were dumped together suggesting a gangland-style killing.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
• More than a dozen gunmen opened fire in two bars in the central Mexican city of Celaya late on Monday, killing at least 11 people in an apparent gangland shooting, local officials and media said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 24 May 2022
• Geas, 54, is serving a life sentence for his role in several violent crimes, including two gangland murders.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2021
• Riprore, which focuses on the heart of gangland Los Angeles, where a gruesome discovery sparks a frenetic homicide investigation, but underneath the surface lurks a darkness that leads to the end of days.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• Got it: The explosively divided street turf of gangland becomes a mirror for our age of irreconcilable differences.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• Gun violence on metro Detroit freeways finally appears to be subsiding after two violent years that saw a slew of shootings over everything from bad driving to gangland feuds.
  — Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2022
• The prosecutor painted her as unwitting accomplice who has cooperated with police in spite of gangland threats to her safety.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• While the motive for de Vries' shooting remains unknown, the July 6 attack on an Amsterdam street had the hallmarks of the gangland hits taking place with increasing regularity in the Dutch underworld the journalist covered.
  — Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021
• Coppola insisted on verisimilitude, even overseeing the color, quality and trajectory of the blood in the gory, unsettling scenes of gangland executions.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• Fargo’s gangland warfare has, to date, escalated at a surprisingly unhurried pace.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• While some of the attacks have been attributed to criminal rivalries and gangland violence, many of them, according to Ukrainian law enforcement officials, are the work of assassins associated with Russia’s intelligence services.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024