lynch

Example Sentences

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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

The verb to lynch means to execute without a trial or due process.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2019

The minister, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, said last week: “It would be unjust to lynch someone on social media because of how we feel about the issue.”

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2018

Listening to john lynch it sounds like cousins has never made a mistake.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2017

“Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee