Example sentences for: lawless

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

  • 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 worry: Hong Kong could become like its Chinese sister city Shenzhen, which is capitalist but wild, lawless, and cruel to workers.

  • The sunny spin: Finally, lawless superstar athletes are being reined in.

  • 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.

  • To find sanctuary, terrorist organizations have fled to some of the least governed, most lawless places in the world.


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