Lathicharge is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lathicharge meaning
The police tactic of charging a crowd with lathis or batons in order to disperse it.
Using Lathicharge
- The main meaning on this page is: The police tactic of charging a crowd with lathis or batons in order to disperse it.
- In the example corpus, lathicharge often appears in combinations such as: to lathicharge, lathicharge in.
Context around Lathicharge
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lathicharge
- In this selection, "lathicharge" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, opened and late stand out and add context to how "lathicharge" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and opened lathicharge and also and in a lathicharge while speaking. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lathicharge" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lathicharge
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
To quell the situation, security personnel resorted to a lathicharge to disperse the mob, recovering several crude bombs. (18 words)
Former MP and RLD leader Jayant Chowdhury was injured in a lathicharge while speaking to reporters near Hathras. (18 words)
The police came into action and opened lathicharge and also used teargas shells on the agitators to disperse them. (19 words)
Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said the state government tried to throttle the voice of farmers as the Haryana Police resorted to lathicharge in a number of places in various parts of the state. (34 words)
He also named three police officers, including the then Joint Commissioner of Police, Rajiv Ranjan Bhagat, who allegedly abused the Patidars and ordered the lathicharge. (25 words)
As they persisted with their demands, the police resorted to lathicharge, in which many of the protesters, including two pregnant women, were injured. (23 words)
Example sentences (8)
The police came into action and opened lathicharge and also used teargas shells on the agitators to disperse them.
To quell the situation, security personnel resorted to a lathicharge to disperse the mob, recovering several crude bombs.
As they persisted with their demands, the police resorted to lathicharge, in which many of the protesters, including two pregnant women, were injured.
Former MP and RLD leader Jayant Chowdhury was injured in a lathicharge while speaking to reporters near Hathras.
Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said the state government tried to throttle the voice of farmers as the Haryana Police resorted to lathicharge in a number of places in various parts of the state.
Several protesters at an anti-CAA demonstration at Chennai’s Washermanpet area were injured when police resorted to lathicharge late on Friday evening.
The protest became intense a day after the city police resorted to lathicharge against the anti-CAA demonstrators in Washermanpet, leaving several injured.
He also named three police officers, including the then Joint Commissioner of Police, Rajiv Ranjan Bhagat, who allegedly abused the Patidars and ordered the lathicharge.
Common combinations with lathicharge
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to lathicharge 5×
- lathicharge in 2×