How to Use lawless in a Sentence

lawless

adjective

• 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 | [e-mail], al, 11 Nov. 2021
• A lawless no man's land, right on a quaint Dutch canal.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 June 2017
• 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
• Base-ball, as it was called in the mid-1800s, was a lawless enterprise.
  — Keith Sharon, Orange County Register, 15 May 2017
• 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
• The next day, Prithviraj sent me out with his driver to see just how lawless the industry can be.
  — Adam Matthews, Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2015
• 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 seizure of the men on Friday was the latest in a series of kidnappings in the lawless waters and coastlines of the southern Philippines in the past year.
  — Floyd Whaley, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
• 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
• Where modern men recreate gunfights between cowboys and tourists can join in the fantasy of living in a lawless land.
  — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
• If laws are not enforced then a lawless society is the obvious result.
  — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024