How to Use lynch in a Sentence

lynch

verb
  • Too many Black men had been lynched for less.
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 3 June 2026
  • Most black men in the South were lynched for charges of rape.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Some are lynched and strung up for their victims to spit on.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There are more black men killed by police than there were black men lynched in a year.
    — Dianna Douglas, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • One of the black men accused of the crime was beaten and lynched.
    — Aaron Kessler, CNN, 23 May 2018
  • Angry mobs form, and the nuns and the priest are nearly lynched.
    — John D'anna, azcentral, 21 June 2018
  • In 1915, a mob dragged him from his prison cell and lynched him.
    — Erin Kutch, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Just ten miles from here, black people were pulled from their houses and lynched.
    — Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Adult men were lynched, but this was the first time a child was dragged out of his home and had his eye gouged out.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Jokes about lynching black people — lynching is not a joke.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
  • Also, that we were lynched, and that Jim Crow laws were against us, too.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Frank was sentenced to life in prison but was lynched by a mob in 1915.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Fifty years ago, though, black men and women were still being lynched in the South.
    — Thomas Barrie, A-LIST, 3 Apr. 2017
  • In 1917, two more black men were lynched for talking back to a white farmer.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Not long ago, one of his men sought medical help for chest pain but fled in fear of being lynched.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2016
  • One was nearly lynched a few days later on his way to court in Indore.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Perry was arrested but the mob broke him out of jail, in order to lynch him.
    — National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The rope used to lynch Choate hanged at the courthouse for several weeks.
    — Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • Some members are from the South and know of people who have been lynched or run out of their homes.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2019
  • Pasquale and Giuseppe were lynched first, strung up in a slaughter yard on a winch used to skin cattle.
    — Frank Viviano, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • And frankly, if the membership lists had been released, people could have been lynched.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 8 June 2018
  • Local media ginned up the community, and a large white mob went to the jail to lynch him.
    — Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 1 June 2021
  • Concern arose that Orange was going to be taken out of the jail and lynched.
    — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • He was lynched eight hours before he was supposed to stand trial, on April 28.
    — Shondiin Silversmith, azcentral, 4 Apr. 2018
  • When the word spread around Tulsa, a white mob gathered to try to lynch the teenage Rowland.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 May 2018
  • But one of the men who was a child at the time and grew up in that little town said that my father had seen two black men lynched on his street.
    — The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Black lives did not matter when they were lynched by the hundreds at the hands of the KKK.
    — Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Apr. 2019
  • The white men drag Henry into the basement and attempt to lynch him in front of his daughters.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Having just managed to save us from getting lynched, the terrorists slam the doors behind us.
    — Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • He was lynched after a mob broke into his jail in Princess Anne in 1933.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018

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