lynch mob
Example Sentences
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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
In 1962, the white lawyer in “To Kill a Mockingbird” confronts a lynch mob intent on hanging his client, an innocent Black man, later telling the jury, “In our courts, all men are created equal.”
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022
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
I learned that my fellow Seattleites found equivalency between a lynch mob and a mere Civil War re-enactment.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2017
