lynch mob
Example Sentences
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With the shoeshine under arrest, a Black militia gathered at a local jail to prevent a lynch mob from kidnapping and murdering him.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
Lives Lived: Harold Brown was one of the last surviving Black pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen and faced a lynch mob of villagers in Austria after his plane was downed in 1945.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
“We have witnessed ... examples of a witch-hunt or lynch mob mentality ... I utterly condemn this behaviour.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019
