lynch
Example Sentences
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White rioters were acquitted for their roles in the lynching and destruction.
From Seattle Times
Albania also publicly protested what it called a “verbal lynching” by another U.K. official who made comments about Albanian immigrants.
From Seattle Times
As conveyed by Alfred Uhry’s book, the dreadful horror of Frank’s fate — a vicious lynch mob overrules the governor’s decision to commute Frank’s death sentence — freights “Parade” with a wearying inevitability.
From Washington Post
In 1952, he painted an image of hooded Klansmen committing a lynching.
From Washington Post
You do not expect the star of a musical about a man lynched by an antisemitic mob to be his wife.
From New York Times
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