Sentence examples for tyres around from inspiring English sources

Millions had seen television shots of young men "necklacing", hanging burning tyres around the necks of, a suspected scab.

A year later, she makes a speech advocating use of "necklaces" – a reference to suspected apartheid collaborators murdered by placing burning tyres around their necks.

There was, too, Winnie's advocacy of "necklacing" – execution by burning, with tyres around the victim's neck – which was hugely damaging to South Africa's liberation struggle.

A fiery speaker, she courted controversy in the 1980s by endorsing "necklacing" – placing burning car tyres around the neck of apartheid collaborators – as a liberation tool.

The Old Forge B&B has a couple of normal rooms and a self-catering apartment, and already gives a nod to retro styling with old enamel advertising signs (Lipton tea, India tyres) around its grounds.

He's been lugging old tyres around the yard all afternoon and his shoulders ache from the effort of that while his brain aches from the effort of listening to José, the owner, complaining.

Flip the tyre around and do the same from the other side.

Necklacing meant putting a petrol-soaked burning tyre around a perceived traitor's neck.

Necklacing was the deceptively innocent term for putting a petrol-soaked burning tyre around a perceived traitor's neck.

If you looked at Dodi from behind when he was sitting down, you could see a substantial spare tyre around his thirteen-year-old middle.

He once waded into a crowd in a township where a police informer was about to be "necklaced" – set alight with a petrol-filled tyre around his neck – and rescued the man.