How to Use ethnic cleansing in a Sentence

ethnic cleansing

noun

• And now in the north of the Gaza Strip, there is an ethnic cleansing.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
• What the Turks are doing now is ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
• In Yei, ethnic cleansing turned the once-peaceful town into a kind of hell.
  — Justin Lynch, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
• Or the ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah, or the airstrikes on Gaza, or maybe because of all of it together.
  — Julia MacFarlane, ABC News, 21 May 2021
• This was ethnic cleansing of Jews, right after the Holocaust, in the middle of the 20th century.
  — Joseph Samuels, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• There is no place for genocide, for ethnic cleansing, for war crimes in the 21st century.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2019
• In fact, Shatz thinks this word—which does have a whiff of ethnic cleansing—is a mistranslation.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• What makes Spain unique is that here the aims of ethnic cleansing were fully realized.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The conflict forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in bouts of ethnic cleansing on both sides.
  — Daniel Sneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2020
• The crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the U.N.
  — Grant Peck, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2021
• The road toward ethnic cleansing in America begins and ends at the same place: The ballot box.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
• The 2017 crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the U.N.
  — Julhas Alam, ajc, 22 Oct. 2021
• The homes of poor Kenyans went up in flames, and more than 1,200 were killed amid widespread ethnic cleansing and a massive police crackdown.
  — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• Israeli demands for the mass evacuation of parts of Gaza have raised the specter of ethnic cleansing.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Plus: Scenes of ethnic cleansing by pro-Turkish forces in Syria.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019
• The students seem to be split on how best to stand against Spencer's message of white nationalism and ethnic cleansing.
  — Elena Hilton, Esquire, 19 Oct. 2017
• The United Nations chief has warned that ethnic cleansing could be taking place.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Khanna didn’t use the words genocide or ethnic cleansing as the other speakers did.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• The Kurds are worried that Turkey is intent on ethnic cleansing.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019
• Thousands of Buddhist monks have held protests against the West for wanting to bring the military to justice for ethnic cleansing.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• Global rights groups and the UN called the campaign ethnic cleansing involving rapes, killings and torching of thousands of homes.
  — Julhas Alam, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• But in Myanmar, and even in Rakhine itself, there is stark denial that any ethnic cleansing is taking place.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• The latter is a far-right party that campaigned in 2015 on ethnic cleansing and reviving the death penalty.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• Researchers have found that Facebook has been used to spread everything from hate speech to ethnic cleansing.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Rights groups say ‘ethnic cleansing’ is happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The process often involved brute force or ethnic cleansing as land was seized and handed over to immigrants.
  — John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022
• This was essentially an act of ethnic cleansing, and Longfellow is alert to the tragedy of the Acadian exile.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The crackdown included rapes, killings and the torching of thousands of homes, and was termed ethnic cleansing by global rights groups and the United Nations.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 July 2021
• This means ethnic cleansing by removing the Kurds from their land and replacing them with some others.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2019
• Wouldn’t Coates have wanted to argue that Israel’s bombing campaign has amounted to genocide or ethnic cleansing?
  — Daniel Bergner, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024