jackboot

Example Sentences

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For some people they can conjure up images of authoritarian states like Germany in the 1930s, and men in jackboots barking "May we see your papers please?"

From BBC

A disproportionate number not only did not even passively resist but showed themselves eager to lick the polish off Hitler’s jackboots, if necessary.

From Salon

HBO’s corporate soap “Succession” was not a drama about fascism per se, but it was maybe more powerful for focusing on the suits while the jackboots were being polished in the background.

From New York Times

I understood how growing up under the jackboot of Jim Crow might lead him to the philosophy of Black self-sufficiency articulated by Malcolm X, which Thomas espoused in his youth.

From Washington Post

In March 1988, he declared: "We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on."

From BBC