Example Sentences

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“Defendants have also, in essence, lawlessly threatened to commute Hanson’s sentence to life imprisonment,” from the death penalty he received.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022

"Does the Court act lawlessly - or at least questionably - when it overrules precedent?" she wrote in a 2013 Texas Law Review article.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2020

Those at all levels of government should allow communities to reckon with history lawfully if they are to continue to condemn protesters for doing so lawlessly.

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2020

He predicted that most business people considering Baltimore would see what happened Monday night “for what it really was — three hundred or four hundred people lawlessly taking advantage of a situation.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015

Come, I must bring you to our captain’s cave: Fear not; he bears an honourable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly.

From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George