Example sentences for: mobs

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

  • Anyhow, I have an impolitic question: Have any of the big disasters we've been serially warned about for the last 20 years (multiple hurricanes, one or two comets, mobs of starving children post-welfare-reform, etc.) actually occurred in New York?

  • And some of the 1,300 unarmed monitors of that agreement have come under attack from Serbian mobs, and some have been beaten by uniformed Serbian police.

  • Describing Indonesian military intervention in West Kalimantan, an Indonesian-controlled territory on the island of Borneo plagued by ethnic and religious conflict, the paper said that "armed mobs paraded the severed heads of their victims through villages" and that "the bridges in one town had been hung with the dismembered parts of the victims' bodies."

  • Well in advance of the mobs of reporters, editors, film crews, radio disc jockeys, news anchors, and photographers now descending on the territory to cover the July 1 transfer of power--8,400 at last count--the press handlers in the Hong Kong government wisely assembled mounds of prepackaged material.

  • On Tuesday, soldiers opened fire on battling mobs, killing 17.


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