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How to use the word Lynching in a Sentence?

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This is a circus, it's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I am concerned, it's a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.

Clarence Thomas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks, who in any way deign to think for themselves, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.

Clarence Thomas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sacrilege is an issue that angers the Sikh community as a whole and the upcoming elections are the reasons why politicians have remained silent on the mob lynching.

Ashutosh Kumar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's not true at all. In fact, in every discussion I've heard about American history and how it should be taught, people are not opposing the teaching of slavery or the teaching of the Jim Crow period of American history and lynching, and all of that is not being opposed.

Carol Swain

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't want to go to a lynching tomorrow, why would I want to see someone hang ? We should be through with that. Do you want your baby, your child to be hanged ?

Madeline Davis-Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What has happened in this case, is a lynching in the 21st century.

Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These individuals, like most victims of lynching, were never crooks. They were just targets and victims of lynch mobs and that's what he( Hogan) can't articulate.

Willie Flowers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our nation has an unforgivable history of murdering Black men and women, comparing a lynching to holding the president accountable is hurtful and insensitive, and ignores the overt White supremacy on display during the insurrection Wednesday.

Suzanne Bonamici

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I seek to amend this legislation not because I take lynching lightly, but because I take it seriously, and this legislation does not.

Rand Paul

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's heartbreaking that it's 2020 and this was a lynching of an African American man.

Lance Bottoms

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching.

Gregory McMichael

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol ... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching.

Marcus Arbery Sr.

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a black American, as far as Im concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves... and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you -- you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.

Clarence Thomas

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is The President. We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Given the history in our country, I would not compare this to a lynching. That was an unfortunate choice of words.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

So yeah this is a lynching, in every sense. This in un-American.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is a sham. This is a joke, so yeah this is a lynching, in every sense. This is un-American.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
4 years ago

White theologians didn't say anything about lynching, i tried to find a white theologian who addressed it in a sustained way. No one did it.

James Cone

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Those guilty of the cowardly and criminal lynching of police doing their duty on the night of December 31st will be found and punished, force will support the law. Honor to the police and full support to all the agents attacked in such a low level fashion.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

People remember mob violence that led to lynching, people remember mob violence that led to people being shot, being grabbed, being mistreated.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you are inciting mob violence, which his what Trump is doing in those clips, there is a lot of memories that people have, people remember mob violence that led to lynching, people remember mob violence that led to people being shot, being grabbed, being mistreated.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Displaying these lynching murals is not consistent with our educational mission.

Lee Dillion

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will find those who carried out the lynching, i call on the leaders of the Druze community ... to calm things down.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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