How to Use pogrom in a Sentence

pogrom

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  • That evening, 64 people came to the hospital seeking refuge from the pogrom and the Gestapo.
    — Evelyn Frick, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • It was first referred to as a pogrom, the name used for attacks on Russian Jews during the time of the czars.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • In the 1890s his family had fled the Jewish pogroms in Lithuania.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • The photograph was taken in 1941, during the Lviv pogroms in Ukraine.
    — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • George and Ira Gershwin’s parents also fled the pogroms.
    — John Strausbaugh, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
  • What’s hanging over that threat is a threat of an impending pogrom.
    — Charlie H. Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
  • Any historian will tell you: after the plague, the pogrom.
    — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 22 Mar. 2020
  • In Fiddler on the Roof, the town of Anatevka struggles to hold on to its traditions as the world changes around it, and the threat of pogroms looms.
    — Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2019
  • This new wave of anti-Semitism could, and in fact did, produce a kind of American pogrom.
    — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • In the Thirties, the legionaries, as they were known, had launched pogroms that claimed hundreds of Jewish lives.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Known as the Allende Massacre after one of the towns where much of the killing took place, the days-long pogrom is believed to have left hundreds dead.
    — Jason Buch, ExpressNews.com, 17 June 2020
  • These are the stories that become cover for pogrom and genocide.
    — Robin Sloan, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
  • The brooch was hidden during a Jewish pogrom stirred by the Black Death, regularly blamed on the Jews.
    — WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • In Europe, where over 50 million died, a search for scapegoats led to widespread pogroms against Jews.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Protests, pogroms against Muslims, and then a pandemic.
    — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Anjum gets caught in pogroms against Muslims in a way that nearly destroys her.
    — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2017
  • Two days after the pogrom, a reporter visited the Tongs’ ransacked store.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
  • The photos were taken by Nazi photographers during the pogrom in the city of Nuremberg and the nearby town of Fuerth.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, Nazis set the building ablaze, but the local fire department put out the flames.
    — Toby Axelrod, sun-sentinel.com, 14 July 2021
  • His mother had seen her mother slain in a Cossack pogrom in a Jewish village in Ukraine.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
  • His father, born in Minsk, was brought to America as a child to escape pogroms.
    — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The Holocaust was the largest loss of Jewish life in their long history of persecution and pogroms.
    — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
  • In addition, there were anti-Semitic pogroms during and after the war.
    — Tara John, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In 1905, a savage Russian pogrom took hundreds of Jewish lives.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The group then began a pogrom, killing some 3,000 men and boys and kidnapping and enslaving thousands of women and girls.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The pogroms by the Myanmar military were aided by mobs of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • But because Jews in Russia did not have rights to be taken away from them, those pogroms didn’t fit the meaning of antisemitism.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • For example, look at the very understandable description of the events of the massacre of the 7th of October as a pogrom.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There are Israeli soldiers nearby who make no attempt to interfere and who leave the area while the pogrom is going on.
    — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
  • But school and birthday parties and friendships and fallings-out loomed just as large, if not larger, in our world than dictators and pogroms.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023

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