Example sentences for: lynched

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

  • "It was people who advocate democracy who had black people lynched from one end of this country to another.

  • Later he and his brother Carlos were accused of stealing a horse, a crime for which Carlos was lynched and Joaquín flogged.

  • Yet it was that recently that black people in Alabama or Mississippi were arrested, beaten, fired from their jobs, and even lynched for trying to vote.

  • Griffith's Intolerance juxtaposed with a pencil sketch of the Lincoln Monument and, on the facing page, a photograph of a charred and limbless lynched black male surrounded by smiling whites in coats and ties.

  • "Anti-gay politicians" such as Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, are "legitimizing the sort of hate that left Matthew Shepard tied to a fence and near death, lynched on account of being gay," says Post columnist Richard Cohen.


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