Examples of lynch mob in a Sentence
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Rumors of a rape then circulated, Rowland was arrested, and White Tulsans formed a lynch mob.
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Omar Jimenez, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
While hiding out from the angry lynch mob, Peggy and Fortune wait in terror, hoping to escape.
—EW.com, 26 Nov. 2023
And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
Legal justice is hardly assured in Libya these days, although the other, rougher kind sometimes is: Al-Islam’s lawyers have warned that their client faces the death penalty or a lynch mob, with no due process either way.
—Timothy William Waters, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2013
With the shoeshine under arrest, a Black militia gathered at a local jail to prevent a lynch mob from kidnapping and murdering him.
—Aaron Morrison, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
But, Tyre’s lynch mob was dressed in department sweatshirts and vests, sanctioned by the entities that supplied them.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, famously insisted on inviting the press and having an open casket for the memorial of her 14-year-old son, whose face was beaten beyond recognition by a white lynch mob in Mississippi.
—Eric Herschthal, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
After Frank's sentence was commuted, he was murdered by a lynch mob.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
Omar Jimenez, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
While hiding out from the angry lynch mob, Peggy and Fortune wait in terror, hoping to escape.
—EW.com, 26 Nov. 2023
And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
Legal justice is hardly assured in Libya these days, although the other, rougher kind sometimes is: Al-Islam’s lawyers have warned that their client faces the death penalty or a lynch mob, with no due process either way.
—Timothy William Waters, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2013
With the shoeshine under arrest, a Black militia gathered at a local jail to prevent a lynch mob from kidnapping and murdering him.
—Aaron Morrison, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
But, Tyre’s lynch mob was dressed in department sweatshirts and vests, sanctioned by the entities that supplied them.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, famously insisted on inviting the press and having an open casket for the memorial of her 14-year-old son, whose face was beaten beyond recognition by a white lynch mob in Mississippi.
—Eric Herschthal, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
After Frank's sentence was commuted, he was murdered by a lynch mob.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
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“Lynch mob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lynch%20mob. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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