How to Use lawless in a Sentence

lawless

adjective
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  • In this lawless trade, the river is the artery to the world.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Not just in dark lawless corners of the world, but here in the U.S.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The songs themselves are too catchy and lawless not to bring thrills.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
  • Trump has said the city is the poster child for a lawless Democratic city.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
  • In their hands, the anthem became burly, lawless, and tough.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!
    — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 8 July 2020
  • Flynn plays a man compelled to clean up the lawless cattle town of Dodge City.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
  • So what are the downsides of a lawless or corporate-ruled Mars?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Buhay’s house on Broadway is also a reflection of the nearly lawless land deals of the time.
    — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
  • Allowing that sort of lawless edict would be a recipe for tyranny.
    — Jacob Sullum, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
  • These safeguards are in place now because of how lawless things were during Liv’s time.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Residents of the north side describe a landscape that can feel lawless.
    — Andrea Ellen Reed For Cnn, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The conflict, which has turned the region into a lawless one, is entering its fifth year.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • They were greeted as usurpers of jobs and, in the West, then still a lawless frontier, many were brutalized and massacred.
    — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • It’s gone from a lawless Colonial frontier to the country’s fastest-growing region.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
  • This would be strikingly lawless, as the White House has admitted.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Trump, who claims to be the law-and-order candidate, is actually an agent of lawless chaos.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2024
  • The lawless edge of the Star Wars galaxy lends itself to some interesting gaming.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Hardline border policies of the type now envisioned would make the border more lawless, not less.
    — TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Muggers, rapists, and lawless bikers have been edited out.
    — Dystopias Aug. 8, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2022
  • President Biden lacks the power to take this lawless and regressive step.
    — Marsha Blackburn, National Review, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Courage, because the route south was booby-trapped with checkpoints, lawless militias and bandits.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • That has fed the impression that the city has become a lawless place and left residents bitterly divided over the roots of the problem and how to solve it.
    — Rachel Scheier, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Shipwreck was a common hazard, death through disease an even greater one, and much of South America was lawless.
    — National Geographic, 11 June 2020
  • Podcast episode The lawless deep sea All five passengers aboard the Titanic submersible are believed to be dead.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Trump’s presidency is the most corrupt and lawless in modern times, if not ever.
    — Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Teigen was propelled to online stardom in the early 2010s, when social media was even more of a lawless land and her devil-may-care brand of tweeting fit right in.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • The destruction of the Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore was not an act of a bunch of lawless protesters.
    — baltimoresun.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Chesa Boudin, & the criminal-loving city council that enabled him & a lawless SF for years, have Bob’s literal blood on their hands.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Huge numbers of Ecuadorians were still fleeing the violence, making their way north through the lawless Darién jungle, which links Panama and Colombia.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024

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