Examples of “Mafia” in a Sentence

noun An organized crime syndicate built on secrecy, hierarchy, and intimidation, especially (capitalized) the Sicilian and Italian-American criminal network.

• The film follows a young man drawn into the mafia in 1950s New York.
• Police say the drug ring was run like a small mafia, complete with its own code of silence.

noun Informally, any tightly-knit group seen as controlling something through influence or pressure rather than crime.

• Locals joked about the "school run mafia," the clique of parents who ran every fundraiser.

noun A social deduction party game in which secretly assigned "mafia" players try to eliminate the rest of the group without being identified.

• We stayed up until 2am playing Mafia after dinner.