Example sentences for: lynching

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

  • I believe it was a lynching.

  • He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.

  • They are often committed by groups--the classic example is lynching.

  • ' In light of U.S. history, such punishment is virtually a return to the lynching that was practised during the frontier development period."

  • And ER was talking about the redress of some of the more shameful circumstances of pre-war life: lynching, child labor, total segregation, pervasive poverty.


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