Examples of kingpin in a Sentence
kingpins of the movie industry
a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
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The indictment paints this picture of you as the kingpin of this operation who helped structure how victims were targeted and how money was made.
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Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Colin Jost is going from anchorman to kingpin.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Apr. 2026
By day, Larry Lavin (Jost) was a respected Ivy League dentist and family man – by night, the East Coast’s most elusive cocaine kingpin.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
An Albanian drug kingpin with a lavish lifestyle was sentenced for plotting with a Detroit-area businessman to build a cocaine-smuggling submarine that helped power a multimillion-dollar narcotics operation.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
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Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Colin Jost is going from anchorman to kingpin.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Apr. 2026
By day, Larry Lavin (Jost) was a respected Ivy League dentist and family man – by night, the East Coast’s most elusive cocaine kingpin.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
An Albanian drug kingpin with a lavish lifestyle was sentenced for plotting with a Detroit-area businessman to build a cocaine-smuggling submarine that helped power a multimillion-dollar narcotics operation.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
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“Kingpin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kingpin. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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