Sentence examples for stoolie from inspiring English sources

The testimony of Smalls showed how much damage could be done by a high-level "stoolie".

Though not usually known as an actors' director, here Fuller directed the great character actor Thelma Ritter in the role of Moe, an aging Bowery stoolie (and expert in the ways of "cannons") who is saving for her funeral; she got an Oscar nomination for her caustic yet sentimental turn.

In it, Mr. Williams asked the driver why he was in his bedroom and then called him a "stoolie," Mr. Benjamin said.

Not content with being dismissed as "Stalin's stoolie," this spotlight seeker yearns to see his life glamorized in the greatest spy-adventure movie ever made.

A group of identically besuited robbers have a stoolie in their midst.

But when the stoolie is gunned down in the pizzeria where he and Carella are negotiating, the detective is left beating his breast over Danny and even more perplexed about what an inoffensive old man possessed that somebody wanted enough to kill for.

That's what links the stoolie of "Le Doulos" (which also stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, above, as a young hood) to the dirty cop of "Le Deuxi?

Everyone is under surveillance; no one has a name, only a number; and there is no knowing who is a friend and who is a stoolie.

The case opened the flood gates for a succession of snouts, snitches and stoolies that allowed the Yard to reverse the tide of armed robberies in the capital by the late 1980s as career criminals switched their attention to the drugs trade in search of quicker and easier profits.

To bring life to these facts, Fallada assembles a staff of vivid low-life characters, stoolies, thieves and whores, Nazi veterans in a haze of drink, as well as ordinary working-people trying to put food on the table.

Fuller wrote, Covering crime obliged you to frequent some very disreputable places, rubbing shoulders with stoolies, bootleggers, prostitutes, and petty mobsters, the full gamut of characters from society's underbelly.