lynching

How To Use lynching In A Sentence

• The novel satirizes the American South before the Civil War, and scathingly examines the South's embrace of slavery, racism, and lynchings.
• The theory of mob lynching has been manufactured to hide the facts of this gruesome incident.
• Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws.
• Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood.
• Numerous sources informed my understanding of corruption in Mexico, first among them news accounts of lynchings or attempted lynchings of both police officers and suspected “delinquents,” in addition to archival articles and John Ross, in his comprehensive descriptions of illicit political acts in each post-Revolutionary presidency, in El Monstruo. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
• She devotes much space to Elisabeth Freeman, a white suffragist whom the NAACP dispatched to Waco immediately after the lynching to do an undercover investigation and prepare a report.
• That is why so many took to the social networks and used the term lynching without apology. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• The story of Mexican lynching is not a footnote in history but rather a critical chapter in the history of Anglo western expansion and conquest.
• This device also draws in listeners in that it asks us to be more than voyeurs; it asks us to be activists who save others from lynching.
• The city of Mumbai sees human tragedies unfold every day, death of a gun-wielding Bihari youth on one day and lynching of a north Indian labourer in train on the other.