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mobs

/ mɒbz /

plural noun

  1. usually foll by of great numbers or quantities; lots

    mobs of people



adverb

  1. a great deal

    mobs better

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Example Sentences

Italian authorities say they have proof they are fighting the mobs.

One of the mobs caught Dr. Saptal Singh, beat him unconscious—and presuming him dead—threw his body off a train.

In response, mobs of Hindus enacted widespread revenge throughout Delhi.

Outside parliament, anyone who challenged the clamour for partition was devoured by the mobs.

Of course, what you have to realize is that until really the postwar era, many New York mobs were multicultural.

Mobs of people filled the streets, wildly denouncing the incapability of a Government which could lead them to such disaster.

Neither did they stop here: their valour and zeal, as is the case with all mobs, became more impetuous as they were not resisted.

By the recent political changes, Tories and suspected persons became exposed to dangers from the law as well as from mobs.

Mobs collected; soldiers filled the streets and were pelted.

And such, despite the sympathies and assistance of brutal mobs of the populace, was sometimes the end of the American “strike.”

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