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How to use lynch in a sentence

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Yet they would beat and lynch someone for being something that wasn't within their control, like skin color or region of birth.
This is reinforced by sequences showing lynch mobs and SS detachments randomly killing anyone they believe insufficiently patriotic.
They could be distinguished from more ad hoc mobs, including lynch mobs, by their structured nature and their semipermanence.
While blogs certainly empower lynch mobs, they can also lead to long and open conversations, virtual town meetings.
All it will take is a decline in economic conditions and the lynch mobs will be out.
It is estimated that between 1880 and 1960, illegal lynch mobs accounted for the deaths of up to 4,800 black people.
Many episodes of anti-Mexican mob violence involve lynch mobs that broke into jails to retrieve their victims.
And then you've got the smaller kinds, the riots in the US, what they call the lynch mobs.
Supporters resisted the urge to form lynch mobs outside Pittodrie and when the telephone rang it was Milne on the receiving end.
Texas secessionists organized lynch mobs across the state to murder anyone who opposed secession.
We should love persuasion bunches, who operate through peaceful persuasion, while hating lynch mobs, who operate through violence and coercion.
Should however the revolution turn into the directorate, the consulate and then the empire, you may come round and lynch us.
And I've seen a small group of men turn into a lynch mob like a light switch had been flipped.
I suspect that the spelling was a folk etymology, an eggcorn, that replaced the unfamiliar element linch with the familiar word lynch.
To be sure, there were times when lynch mobs operated in isolated mining camps, in out-of-the-way gulches, or on sparsely-settled ranchlands.
In a thinly veiled attempt to mobilise lynch mobs, the press gleefully reported calls for the two to be hunted down and punished.
The administration is trying to frame a guilty man and lead a lynch mob to execute him.
Only once we were all heartily sick and tired and ready to lynch him did he release us to the reception.
In a prologue, Marion is shown being chased and barely escaping a crowd of angry American white men who want to lynch her and her newly born.
In June 1937, a group of white men broke into the home of Willie Scott in West Feliciana Parish, seeking to lynch him.
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In short, lynch law prevailed for many years during the revolution, and the habit became so fixed that we have never given it up.
The attempt of the stranglers to lynch a horse-thief at Las Salinas, the same being me.
We'll drag out Mr. strawman, and lynch him to the big gate before they get along.
The crime was not the worst of crimes, and there was no excuse for riot or lynch law.
Nothing can be more demoralizing in the long run than lynch law.
But spite of all your tricks, it Is not in you Judge lynch to do.
In another country we know Judge lynch would preside at their trial.
This was one of the early applications of lynch law in the West.
They did nothing in the nature of mob violence or lynch law.
Some people believe that this Lynch is the onlie begetter of lynch law.
The last thing that can be allowed to happen is for lynch law to be applied.
This was probably the first instance of lynch law in America.
Before night they wanted to lynch him, but he was gone, you see.
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