lynch
Example Sentences
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One party leader had described the lynching as an "accident", while another said consuming beef was unacceptable.
From BBC
Negotiations to surrender the fort ended with its officers brutally lynched.
The worst of them — think Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., or White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt — smile broadly as they lynch the truth and denigrate the working press on the daily.
From Salon
To enforce psychologically the old Jim Crow arrangements, there was an acceleration in the lynching of black Americans after the war.
His captors, who need him alive as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Israeli government, fear that local civilians would lynch an Israeli if they saw one.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
