How to Use lawless in a Sentence

lawless

adjective
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  • In this lawless trade, the river is the artery to the world.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Not just in dark lawless corners of the world, but here in the U.S.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The songs themselves are too catchy and lawless not to bring thrills.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
  • Trump has said the city is the poster child for a lawless Democratic city.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
  • In the lawless new era of badass dressing, the silk shirt is a wardrobe essential.
    — The Editors Of Gq Style, GQ, 5 June 2018
  • In their hands, the anthem became burly, lawless, and tough.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The United States has long been a reckless, lawless actor on the world stage.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 10 May 2018
  • Most of its pirates are from the poor and lawless Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
    — The Economist, 3 July 2019
  • Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!
    — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 8 July 2020
  • The new study makes clear that lawless behavior is not the norm among gun owners.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Flynn plays a man compelled to clean up the lawless cattle town of Dodge City.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
  • So what are the downsides of a lawless or corporate-ruled Mars?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
  • But the caravan panic isn’t just about the idea of a lawless mob swarming the border.
    — Dara Lind, Vox, 29 Oct. 2018
  • Buhay’s house on Broadway is also a reflection of the nearly lawless land deals of the time.
    — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
  • Bean opened up a tent saloon about three miles west of the Pecos River, doing a brisk business in a lawless land.
    — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The only ‘grab’ here was Jerry’s lawless grab of Christian’s work.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Allowing that sort of lawless edict would be a recipe for tyranny.
    — Jacob Sullum, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
  • These safeguards are in place now because of how lawless things were during Liv’s time.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Among their first bad encounters are the Langmores, a lawless bunch who live in a few trailers by the water.
    — Hank Stuever, kansascity, 20 July 2017
  • The region where Monday’s massacre took place has long been lawless.
    — al, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Residents of the north side describe a landscape that can feel lawless.
    — Andrea Ellen Reed For Cnn, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Virtuous, sure, heroic, taming the lawless West and all that, but the filth of it, Tonto, the poverty, the endless killings.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The conflict, which has turned the region into a lawless one, is entering its fifth year.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Some may have relocated to the lawless western deserts of Afghanistan.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • This is the brutal, lawless world of this new Disney+ Star Wars series — which brings a galaxy far, far away to the small screen as a live-action series for the first time.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The moves are part of efforts to stop smugglers from operating out of the lawless North African nation.
    — Washington Post, 29 June 2018
  • They were greeted as usurpers of jobs and, in the West, then still a lawless frontier, many were brutalized and massacred.
    — Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Harpoon Gun Scavengers in the lawless outskirts of the Blade Runner universe use these grappling guns to snag loot.
    — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2017
  • If laws are not enforced then a lawless society is the obvious result.
    — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Friday’s string of smash and grabs come after Newsom hailed his new bills as a turning point in the Golden State’s bid to tackle the lawless behavior which has plagued California and other states in recent years.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2024

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