How to Use lynch in a Sentence

lynch

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• Most black men in the South were lynched for charges of rape.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2017
• In 1915, a mob dragged him from his prison cell and lynched him.
  — Erin Kutch, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• One of the black men accused of the crime was beaten and lynched.
  — Aaron Kessler, CNN, 23 May 2018
• Angry mobs form, and the nuns and the priest are nearly lynched.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 21 June 2018
• Frank was sentenced to life in prison but was lynched by a mob in 1915.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Aldean shot the clip in front of a courthouse in Colombia, Tenn., where a Black man was lynched in the 1920s.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Black lives did not matter when they were lynched by the hundreds at the hands of the KKK.
  — Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Apr. 2019
• In 1917, two more black men were lynched for talking back to a white farmer.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Apr. 2018
• Henry was a white man who’d lynched a black teenage boy.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Mar. 2018
• Also, that we were lynched, and that Jim Crow laws were against us, too.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2023
• Adult men were lynched, but this was the first time a child was dragged out of his home and had his eye gouged out.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Among those buried at Woodlawn: Reuben Stacey, who was lynched in 1935 in Davie.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Fifty years ago, though, black men and women were still being lynched in the South.
  — Thomas Barrie, A-LIST, 3 Apr. 2017
• The rope used to lynch Choate hanged at the courthouse for several weeks.
  — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• When the word spread around Tulsa, a white mob gathered to try to lynch the teenage Rowland.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 May 2018
• There are more black men killed by police than there were black men lynched in a year.
  — Dianna Douglas, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2017
• Some members are from the South and know of people who have been lynched or run out of their homes.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2019
• The white woman whose lies got Emmett Till lynched is still alive in 2017.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2017
• Pasquale and Giuseppe were lynched first, strung up in a slaughter yard on a winch used to skin cattle.
  — Frank Viviano, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• In 1915, a group of men broke into the Milledgeville, Georgia, prison, kidnapped Frank, and lynched him.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
• He was lynched after a mob broke into his jail in Princess Anne in 1933.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018
• Here's a Negro during the time you'd be lynched for looking at white ladies.
  — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2018
• He was kidnapped from prison and lynched two years later.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• In the north, Muslims suspected of killing cows get lynched.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• That black men would cease to be lynched by mobs throughout the South would have seemed farfetched when Ida B. Wells took on the task.
  — Clint Smith, New Republic, 18 May 2017
• Just ten miles from here, black people were pulled from their houses and lynched.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
• The black people who were terrorized & lynched in its name?
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019
• And, perhaps, a relative or two of Jamey’s were lynched.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 4 June 2019
• Muslims are now being lynched on the suspicion of eating beef.
  — Ananya Vajpeyi, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2015
• For a time, residents of the Eastern Shore were bitter against the governor for his interference and threatened to lynch the four.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024