Sentence examples for gangland from inspiring English sources
'gangland' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe an area with a high rate of gang activity or related to gangs or gangsters. For example, "The police are cracking down on gangland activity in our neighborhood."
noun
The underworld of organized crime.
A recent Valentine menu featured a gangland massacre.
A family friend of Farah said that he believed he had been chased and shot in a gangland mix-up.
Clements said: "Ronnie and Reggie Kray's names are synonymous with gangland life in the East End of London in the 60s and anything associated with the pair always attracts interest".
Banco Seng Heng's general manager, Robert McBain, says it has no business with North Korean companies or citizens.Macau's reputation is already fragile, and suggestions that the gangland violence of the 1990s has been replaced by commercial crime do it no favours.
The police speculated that it was a chance mugging, but her colleagues say the killing resembled a gangland hit.
He acquired his nickname during his fabled reign as a gangland boss.
Peruvians are becoming used to gangland killings in Lima; in a recent poll 72% said Peru is "on the way" to becoming a "narco-state".
Only Pyongyang's ruling clique knows what it hopes to achieve by all this, but at least two plausible scenarios could link this pair of provocations.The first is that the regime is reverting to familiar gangland tactics to bully its way back to international negotiations under the framework of the stalled six-party talks, chaired by China and including America, Japan and Russia.
The campaign against organised crime launched by Chongqing in June demonstrated just how prone China remains, after all those years of Communist rule, to the age-old scourge of collusion between bureaucrats and gangland bosses.
If so, a Slovene veto would obstruct the entire EU, not just Croatia.For now, standing up to Slovenia is helping to distract attention from a string of corruption scandals and a worrying number of gangland-style killings that have shocked public opinion.
Shortly afterward, Mr Rincón's chief lawyer was murdered in a gangland-style hit.A week before his death, Mr Carranza warned in a letter to Mr Rincón that "serious situations" endangered the "stability of the peace process", according to El Tiempo, a newspaper.
