How to Use lynch in a Sentence

lynch

verb
Definition of lynchnext
  • One of the black men accused of the crime was beaten and lynched.
    — Aaron Kessler, CNN, 23 May 2018
  • In 1917, two more black men were lynched for talking back to a white farmer.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Apr. 2018
  • When the word spread around Tulsa, a white mob gathered to try to lynch the teenage Rowland.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 May 2018
  • This was eighty-four years after Bolden’s great-grandfather was lynched.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 20 June 2024
  • Twenty-one-year-old black men in America, now they’ve been lynched in another kind of way.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • He was lynched after a mob broke into his jail in Princess Anne in 1933.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018
  • Others lynched Elizabeth Lawrence for telling white children not to throw rocks at black children.
    — Jemar Tisby, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • My father was probably a two-year-old when Turner was being lynched in a county in a neighboring state.
    — Issac J. Bailey, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In 1915, a mob dragged him from his prison cell and lynched him.
    — Erin Kutch, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The rope used to lynch Choate hanged at the courthouse for several weeks.
    — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • One was nearly lynched a few days later on his way to court in Indore.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Local media ginned up the community, and a large white mob went to the jail to lynch him.
    — Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 1 June 2021
  • Perry was arrested but the mob broke him out of jail, in order to lynch him.
    — National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The white men drag Henry into the basement and attempt to lynch him in front of his daughters.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • During a prison transfer in 1915, Frank was kidnapped and lynched.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Lived in too, but by a dark spirit with the power to make sure a photo album of lynching victims finds its way into the family’s hands.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 12 June 2024

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