How to Use persecution in a Sentence

persecution

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  • Some Jews found Stars of David painted on their homes, an echo of the Nazi persecution.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The plight of people who are displaced from their homes due to war and persecution is top of mind for many.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But the themes of persecution and the need for a Jewish homeland were deeply embedded in me.
    — Jill Gurvey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
  • The Holocaust was the largest loss of Jewish life in their long history of persecution and pogroms.
    — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The Prophet is portrayed as imperfect yet earnest, courageous in the face of persecution.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Refugees would have to be certified by the United States as fleeing some form of persecution.
    — The Editors, National Review, 3 May 2024
  • In Vladimir Putin’s delirious telling, their persecution was normal and just.
    — Bernard-Henri Lévy, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • The persecution of Lai is part of the party’s merciless campaign to crush the remaining freedoms of the island city.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Most of the people going to the U.S.-Mexico border are fleeing persecution or poverty in their home countries.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 May 2023
  • That in turn can buttress their case for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution in China.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • The Russian and Chechen governments have both maintained that the persecution never took place.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • As the song’s music video played in the background, showing the violent persecution of two gay men, a pride flag unfurled from the microphone stand.
    — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Or, for that matter, with the idea that antisemitism would not exist if Jews did not provoke their own persecution.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The accusations and persecution died down only in the latter half of the 18th century.
    — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • What about the more overt persecution of comedy that Nesteroff traces?
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Some of them are fleeing persecution, but some of them are understandably coming here to look for a better life.
    — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The work embraces a devotion to Catholicism, which, during the time of Shakespeare, was a sect subject to widespread persecution.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The story begins in the 1830s, when patriarch David Sassoon, son of the chief treasurer to the pashas of Baghdad, was forced to flee due to the persecution of the city’s Jewish population.
    — James Reginato, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
  • They were also driven by persecution of Sikhs in India, which then-Sen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Many Hmong-Lao soldiers faced violence and persecution from the Vietnamese and Lao governments following the war and were forced to leave their homes.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2024
  • The Kukis, who are from the same ethnic group as the Chins, say the government has unfairly cracked down the group since their arrival, leading to feelings of persecution and abandonment.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • Dehgan fled Iran to escape persecution for trying to defend clients before some of these judges.
    — Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • For the pragmatic lawmakers currently in office, the choice to back Trump is out of fear of persecution from his loyal base in the party, many members say.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • They have been identified as people who escaped persecution and who should not be forced to return to danger.
    — Kate Morrissey, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • And migrants, fleeing poverty, gangs and persecution in their homelands, were still desperate to reach U.S. soil at any cost.
    — Valerie Gonzalez, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
  • In fact, a record 120 million people have been forced to flee their homes to escape conflict, persecution, climate disaster and more.
    — Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
  • Under the new order, many of those people would now be sent home to face persecution, from rape to torture to unjust imprisonment.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
  • Russian lawyers associations have called on advocates across Russia to hold a strike Oct. 25 to 27 to protest the persecution of lawyers.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • But it was designed to bolster his public claims of political persecution.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
  • These are people who generally employ a tone of persecution, blame and retribution in their remarks.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024

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