How to Use extralegal in a Sentence

extralegal

adjective

• Just north of Ketchum, Idaho is Phantom Hill, a scenic stretch of state highway that begs for extralegal speed.
  — Basemwasef, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
• To most of us, a declined pointer is asking for more mph, but this one only starts to close on flat at extralegal speeds.
  — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2017
• Leapfrogging cars ahead and squirting into gaps in traffic is theme-park fun, and the grunt doesn't tail off at extralegal speeds.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 27 Oct. 2021
• The sheriff, a lone defender of the rule of law, stands them off, refusing to give in to the mob’s demand for extralegal justice.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2017
• But the idea that Obama and the Democrats were ruling by arbitrary, extralegal means was established on the right as holy writ.
  — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
• This made extralegal violence less necessary for those who hate, for in many cases, the law had their backs.
  — Lance Warren, Longreads, 14 Oct. 2017
• But some of those women would travel out of state, and some would end their pregnancies using extralegal means.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• That’s why lynchings and other extralegal acts of white supremacy were reinforced by the firm hand of the U.S. government, as in the Tulsa Massacre of 1921.
  — Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2020
• In the spirit of the mythic West, which has always played at the border between legal and extralegal action, Dutton has muscle on one hip and the law on the other.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• What’s more, while the rules would create a set of legal roadblocks, law enforcement officials say the extralegal pipeline for parts is sure to adapt and thrive.
  — New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
• Far from an isolated event, the extralegal killing was how justice was often meted out in mining camps.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Rendition flights are said to be used for the extralegal transfer of prisoners from one country to another.
  — Fox News, 5 Mar. 2020
• The narrative at the heart of the report — the story of how former President Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election by extralegal means — takes up less than half of the volume.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2022
• Why not find a peaceful but extralegal procedure to make Joe Biden president right this second?
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The extralegal death sentence was executed by the white mob within four hours of the killing that Anderson was accused of committing.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 1 May 2018
• The message was the third in a series of open letters Rhodes and the Oath Keepers wrote to Trump urging extralegal action following the 2020 presidential election.
  — John Woolley, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
• Huge carbon ceramic brake discs slow things down from extralegal speeds at eyeball-straining rates.
  — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• There’s a fire and an election call that, while not carrying the force of law, would determine the narrative advantage in a legal (or extralegal) showdown.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• Trump’s decision is a relatively modest way to roll back what is clearly an extralegal act.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
• First, companies need to renew their pledges to withhold funding from politicians who reject the results of the 2020 election and who pursue extralegal means to tilt future outcomes.
  — Michael Posner, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• Neuwirth gets the lowdown on the low life by becoming a resident of four of the most happening squatopolises: the thriving extralegal pockets of Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi, and Rio.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2004
• Rights groups say the detentions are arbitrary and extralegal, sweeping up huge numbers of people on scant evidence.
  — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• But all those other norms still need shoring up — and Biden hasn’t offered much in the way of new laws or regulations to deter a future president from asserting extralegal powers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2022
• The archetypal example is the lynch mob, in which a group of enraged whites in the segregationist South would hunt down a Black man and exact extralegal punishment, for crimes real or imagined, with a noose.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 15 Dec. 2021
• Space is generous for front- and rear-seat occupants alike, and the levels of comfort and refinement remain impressive even when cruising at extralegal speeds.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2021
• Agencies should not be able to interfere with the exercise of free speech and other constitutional rights in secretive and extralegal ways.
  — Brent Skorup, Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2017
• When Apple Daily was under siege, Mr. Clifford witnessed the impact of the government’s extralegal actions.
  — L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Deprived of a legal means of keeping their neighborhoods white, some racists resorted to extralegal methods, which is where the horror really begins.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• Churchill’s vision was extralegal; no nation in the world openly allowed a foreign power to run an intelligence service on domestic soil.
  — Beverly Gage, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• The incident has been recorded by a child nicknamed Buzz (Al-Hassan Ly), who flies a drone camera, and the three cops, both fearing the possibility of a riot and fearing for their own reputations, conduct an extralegal chase of that kid.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2020

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