8 sentences with 'mob'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mob and other words derived from it.
• « On 14 July, a mob in search of arms invaded the Bastille, a royal prison and arsenal, and killed its guards. »
• « A peculiar phenomenon derived from the importance of capitals was that political revolutions often began as single-city revolutions: if a mob could take to the streets of Paris, for example, it could well send the king running for the proverbial hills and declare a new government (which happened in 1830 and 1848). »
• « For Burke, the common people were a mob of uneducated and inexperienced political wannabes and had no business trying to influence policy. Instead, it was far wiser to keep things in the basic form that had survived for centuries, with minor adjustments as necessary. »
• « Meanwhile, the European nobility had been bred for centuries to rule and had developed both cultural traditions and systems of education and training to produce leaders. It was taken for granted that they were not all very good at it, but according to Burke there was simply no comparison between the noble class and the mob class - to let the latter rule was to invite disaster. »
• « The killings provoked mob violence that claimed nine thousand lives, a bloody episode that highlights the degree of religious unrest that gripped Europe in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation. »
• « Forming a mob known as the Paxton Boys, these frontiersmen attacked a nearby group of Conestoga from the Susquehannock tribe. »