lynch

Example Sentences

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He compared the riot to “a lynch mob of 150 years ago,” and lamented how many Americans have become “hate-filled.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023

Angry readers wrote to The Times in response to my favorable review of the series, insisting I was part of a lynch mob: “Shame on you!”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2021

John Edgar Wideman’s 1973 “The Lynchers,” about a group of Black men who plan to lynch a white police officer, is doleful and ambitiously literary, anticipating Wideman’s distinguished writing career.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2020

Fair and open elections are the lynch pin of our democracy.

From Washington Times • Feb. 27, 2019

“Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee