lynch mob

noun

: a crowd of people who kill or try to kill (someone) illegally as a punishment

Examples of lynch mob in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But when a trial does not deliver the verdict a riled public seeks, a lynch mob takes matters into their own hands. —Brent Schacherer, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2024

See the shotgun my great-grandfather brandished when a lynch mob tried to claim his son. —Gil MacIas, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025

For those who don't know, Robert England plays Freddy Krueger, a hideously scarred child killer who was murdered by a lynch mob. —Simon Thompson, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

On March 9, 1892, a white lynch mob instigated by Barrett killed Moss and two of his colleagues, accusing them of plotting a war against white citizens. —Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024

Rumors of a rape then circulated, Rowland was arrested, and White Tulsans formed a lynch mob. —Omar Jimenez, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024

While hiding out from the angry lynch mob, Peggy and Fortune wait in terror, hoping to escape. —EW.com, 26 Nov. 2023

And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob. —Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023

Legal justice is hardly assured in Libya these days, although the other, rougher kind sometimes is: Al-Islam’s lawyers have warned that their client faces the death penalty or a lynch mob, with no due process either way. —Timothy William Waters, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2013

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