Example sentences for: lawless

How can you use “lawless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She had worked for a refugee-relief project in the most lawless region of South Asia before finding her way into an even more dangerous part of the world--one of great importance for U.S. foreign policy.

  • Office of Special Investigations--continue the honorable policy of replacing lawless revenge with legitimate justice.

  • J. Edgar Hoover despised King, whom he genuinely believed to be a Communist and further resented for assailing the bureau's sometimes laggard enforcement of justice in the lawless South.

  • The pirates raided anything on the sea, living totally lawless — and often not very lengthy — lives.

  • Also in Newsweek , a package of articles cheers the capture of Pol Pot--"the last monster of the 20 th century"--but notes that Cambodia is still corrupt, lawless, and scarred by Pol Pot's genocide.


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